Cheerskep

In all these years of discussing thing with you (sequentially sending
electronic messages to each other's attention), I now realize that I don't
have a very clear notion of what concept you entertain when you write

   notion
   meaning
   name

What is a notion composed of? How does anyone (or you particularly) construct
or form a notion? How do representations of external objects (a horsey, say,
or any other perceptible thing) stimulate a notion, and how does your thinking
or cognitive faculty establish a relationship between discrete stimulated
notions of a horsey and a foopgoom. In other words, how do you (or anyone)
establish the notions of relationships, such as causation, or modals such as
possibility, or the subjunctive, a probationary contradiction?

I don't think you've ever addressed this. You have only offered us your son's
horsey, the Andean sheepherd's incomprehension of English, and foopgoom.

Unless I have misunderstood what you meant previously. <g>

By the way, you take Wittgenstein to task for writing, "But what does this
mean?"--in particular, his use of "mean." But that's the English translation.
What does it say in the original German?


> From all of which, and more, I infer Imago doesn't follow Wittgenstein any
> more than he follows me or Augustine.

You switch between "you" and "Imago": Are you addressing Imago or merely
brushing him off in the third person?

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Michael Brady

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