Spot on DMB. Whilst standalone defintions have some usefulness in dialogue - as I may have bemoaned several times before - they are really part of a web of "interconnectedness".
I recently posted a review of Hofstadter's "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies" and have been discussing with people over at the "Inclusionality Forum" where this exact point is also at issue. That no "discrete" object can really be thought of in any isolated way in any closed domain. http://www.psybertron.org/?p=1567 Regards Ian On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:27 PM, david buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Marsha said to Ron: > ..I don't think the net-of-jewels model fits into the MOQ. This bother me. > > dmb says: > You know that bit about the mythos being analogies upon analogies? I use the > net of jewels to imagine the structure of language. Each word and each > concept has meaning only in relation to other words and concepts. Spider webs > work to illustrate this idea too but jewels are so much nicer. > _________________________________________________________________ > Enjoy 5 GB of free, password-protected online storage. > http://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_skydrive_062008 > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
