Great post, always good to hear from you. Let me add that eh some .... seemingly meaningless fragments of .. text, like, eehr, mmmm, are also . . . .much underrated.
Cheers! Sam Carana On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:07 PM, einseele <[email protected]> wrote: > > This group is lately almost silent > My subject is linguistics, so I will take advantage of this silence to > point the obvious, which is usually not so clear. > > When talking, in any language, there is always a silent portion/ > segment, words, letters, sentences, need that silence to identify > itselves. > > Also when we write. Silence when we write is represented by "empty" > space. > > There is empty space in all cases, or silence. Being perhaps the most > important component of language. > > Even if I write: > > thisgroupislatelyalmostsilentmysubjectislinguisticssoiwilltakeadvantageofthissilencetopointtheobviouswhichisusuallynotsoclear > > Even so, to convey any meaning the reader will add "missing" "empty" > space to the above, which is the first sentence of this post. > > Silence, empty space, or whatever instance this represents, conveys > meaning. It is not null, but empty. This means that in language, > emptiness is treated the same way as any positive sign. > > As in computer science as well, where the sign "0" represents the > absence of a material dot. > Binary systems need 2 values and curiously, the first is "0" > > That absence has no lesser status that any other sign, and more than > that is needed as part of the system. > > If this is valid to language, and there are a lot of languages (also > not human), why should be any different in Physics, or Nature, or > Chemistry, whatever. > > It is hard to see out there knowledge approaches talking about > emptiness in this sense, there are examples of course. Poetry for > instance, and many other. > > rgds > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
