Cheerskep: Whether it's words reflecting a meaning to the brain, or our
brains/minds associating meanings with words or forms "making" us think
something, the process is the same.
Long ago my father built a radio set, I watched a television set - for years
we have just talked about watching tv. Insisting that folks say "television
set" each time, as opposed to "tv" doesn't serve much purpose that I can
see, as much as it would be true that we watch television sets. My argument
takes nothing away from your declaration that our minds do the work in
deciphering meanings of words (or pictures on screens at the UN and expained
by Colin Powell). I am proposing, again, that, in everyday discourse, it's
not essential to deny in every reference that words have meaning, for all
that it is true that meanings are understood by our minds.
Geoff C
From: armando baeza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: "Certainty" AND "ART"
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 21:29:22 -0800
Like all objects, words reflect a meaning to the brain.
mando
On Nov 5, 2008, at 9:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Geoff, you say:
"you still assert that our minds do the meaning-finding, BUT in
everyday talk, words mean something."
The upper-case BUT is mine, to emphasize you evidently see a difference.
Please articulate why you feel the WORDS do the "meaning" as
distinguished from
just our minds, contemplating them, and making associations with the
familiar
sound/scription. Please take into account my repeated asserted that
words are
inert, they don't act, any more than a rock does.
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