Frances to Cheerskep and others... Understood and agreed so will try to get at his definition of meaning; but even if his meaning of a sign is deemed an objective entity in the outer world, then his theory might still be good as a "special" semantic theory of say formalism or materialism or relativism or realism, and thus worthy of some study, albeit limited to a particular circle of linguistic and epistemic interest.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Polanyi's theory of Knowledge Frances or Chris, you could do us all a good turn to see if in the book he provies a defintion of 'meanng' -- i.e what HE HAS IN MIND with the word. If he believes that "meaning" is somehow a mind-independent entity "corresponding" to something like a universal notion, or even to just a word, that will save us much time.
