On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:02 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]>wrote:
dmb says: > Isn't it true that words mean what they mean precisely because of the way > they're used? Words mean what they mean by reason of a negotiation between two or more. Words mean just what the worder intends when the worder is talking to himself. Philosophy uses words which get their meaning from dictionaries which get their definitions from common usage in works of literature which come from an author's head. Rhetoric scores again. 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/
