Many (most?) linguistic interactions are not propositional in the sense
that you imply.
There is no verifiable equivalent to opening the fridge door for
utterances like "Cool", "Give us a hand won't you", "You're welcome",
"Justin Bieber is wonderful", "You go and sneak in round the back
Hi Malcolm Dean and colleagues,
On 12 Nov 2016, at 22:11, Malcolm Dean wrote:
To an animal about to be attacked and eaten, the meaning of an
approaching predator is quite clear.
Obviously, meaning is produced by, within, and among Observers, and
not by language.
Meaning may be produced
Dear FISers - I enjoyed Jose’s distinction of meaning and sense making.
Employing McLuhan’s notion of figure and ground in which one can only
understand a figure in terms of the ground in which it operates, I would
therefore say that meaning is figure and sense-making is the ground in which
Dear Malcolm:
To an animal about to be attacked and eaten, the meaning of an approaching
predator is quite clear.
Obviously, meaning is produced by, within, and among Observers, and not by
language.
“Quite clear” and “obviously” are no arguments. It is “as if” the animal
attributes
To an animal about to be attacked and eaten, the meaning of an approaching
predator is quite clear.
Obviously, meaning is produced by, within, and among Observers, and not by
language.
Meaning may be produced *through* language, not *in* language, as a medium
of interaction (aka communication).
