In a message dated 8/24/08 4:25:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> "Meaning" is always in a mind, never in an object.
>
> Whenever we look upon (or hear, or taste, or smell, or even palp) an object,
>
> the sense data each mind receives is more or less different from the next
> mind's receipt, and each mind then "processes" it differently.
>
> The processing is largely a matter of associating the immediate sensations
> with other notion already stored in memory. That inventory of memories, plus
> the
> intricacies of our associating apparatus, result in new notion that can be
> of
> wide variation from mind to mind -- variation and degree of "recognition".
>
One might enlarge this to say that meaning of an object is partly
determined by the mind's perception of the culture by which it is surrounded.
Kate Sullivan
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