Heh, no.
> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:27:49 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] DMB and Me > > Matt, > Thus my meaming of differing types of meaning... > a utility of distinction which is meaningfully useful. > Else things get kinda meaningless..ya know > what I mean? > -R% > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Matt Kundert <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, March 20, 2010 5:16:00 PM > Subject: Re: [MD] DMB and Me > > > Ron said: > What I was implying by "meaning" in the context we were discussing > > was the meaning of the temperature, the air we breathe,, the food > > I eat, how I feel. > > If I feel cold, wet, hungry and feverish...it's going to effect linguistic > > meaning > > and context. If I drink alchohol, antidepressants, drugs.... > > recently been in a fight, car accident or attacked, suffering from cancer > > chronic illness and constant physical pain. > > which has an effect on the sense it makes within language. > > Yeah, but I think what I'm suggesting is that it appears as > if you are treating "meaning" as both inclusive of linguistic > and non-linguistic categories, whereas I'm suggesting 1) > "meaning" is best approached by understanding it to be > internal to "language" and 2) I am in no way shape or form > suggesting that non-linguistic things (e.g., stoves) or > non-propositional things (e.g., pain) do not effect our > linguistic, meaning-generating behavior. > > I can't tell whether or not you agree with (1) and (2). It's > part of the trouble with being unable to tell sometimes > whether a response is a "riposte" or an > "addition/augmentation." The knowing whether something > is one or the other effects greatly the meaning. > > Matt _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID27925::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:032010_1 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/md/archives.html
