As Chazwin seems to have said....
On Oct 13, 12:34 pm, nominal9 <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Oct 13, 12:30 pm, nominal9 <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I don't know... einseele....
> > Your arguement doesn't seem to hold all that much "water" for
> > me....Silence, when it comes to language, would appear to me to be the
> > absence of any signification whatsoever... Whereas I concede "code" is
> > significant because it relies on "spacing" or an some sort of On/Off
> > relationship... each of which is established to be significant in and
> > of itself.... but language... without any language?.... I don't quite
> > see it... the Metaphor or Analogy doesn't hold, I don't think.
> > nominal9
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> > On Oct 2, 9:07 am, einseele <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > > When talking, in any language, there is always a silent portion/
> > > segment, words, letters, sentences, need that silence to identify
> > > itselves.
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> > > Also when we write. Silence when we write is represented by "empty"
> > > space.
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> > > There is empty space in all cases, or silence. Being perhaps the most
> > > important component of language.
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> > > Even if I write:
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> > > thisgroupislatelyalmostsilentmysubjectislinguisticssoiwilltakeadvantageofthissilencetopointtheobviouswhichisusuallynotsoclear
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> > > Even so, to convey any meaning the reader will add "missing" "empty"
> > > space to the above, which is the first sentence of this post.
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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"
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> > > That absence has no lesser status that any other sign, and more than
> > > that is needed as part of the system.
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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.
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