Hendrik van Rooyen <hend...@microcorp.co.za> wrote: > The opposite thing is of course a continual source of trouble - we all have > words for stuff we have never seen, > like "dragon", "ghost", "goblin", "leprechaun", "the current King of > France", "God", "Allah", "The Holy Trinity", "Lucifer", "Satan", "Griffin" - > and because we have words for these things, we can, and unfortunately do, > think about them, in a fuzzy fashion, to our own detriment. People even go > around killing other people, based on such fuzzy thinking about stuff that > can not be shown to exist.
Okay class, this weekend's assignment is to read Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations" and then return here on Monday to discuss :) (For someone who is "not a linguist", Hendrik, you have a really solid grasp on the fundamentals of the field...) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
