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From: "Krimel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Truth and the Linguistic Turn
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[Krimel]
Once more into the breach... The idea of a net or a web approaches a
constructive analogy but misses the point if only slightly. The problem
with
the analogy is that it implies an equal connection between all of the
nodes.
With language especially this misses an important point which is that all
of
the connections are not equal. There is a very strong connection between
"apples" and "red" or in another context between "apples" and "oranges"
but
a very weak connection between "apples" and "sea urchins".
Language and thoughts comprises a complex network of association more like
a
tree or a river system or a highway system, or a nervous system or lungs.
It
is a universal geometrical structure that is self similar across scale and
appears to us in two, three and four dimensions. But then I have mentioned
this many many times and will once again suggest that it is critical to a
useful understanding of the MoQ.
Greetings Krimel,
You've mentioned this tree/root structure before. It makes some sense, but
I still don't like it. It seems to be ignoring too much of the process. It
doesn't begin with roots and end with leaves.
Marsha
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