I would conclude that the object is always altering the mind.
I would think that every new experience transform it a little.
mando
On Aug 25, 2008, at 5:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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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