tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249867.post4629718254522939175..comments2023-06-18T23:28:28.840+10:00Comments on ShelterIt - My digital think-tank: Hello, world ; what are you?Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10613480150660825848noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249867.post-27517556049744057582010-11-14T05:29:29.843+11:002010-11-14T05:29:29.843+11:00Alex,
Hey. You may be interested in looking at i...Alex,<br /><br />Hey. You may be interested in looking at integrationism (integrational linguistics) and Roy Harris.<br /><br />~NathanNathan Rinnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13994922104672096902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249867.post-19378242683102088172010-11-11T21:53:56.046+11:002010-11-11T21:53:56.046+11:00Hey Tom! Wonderful to hear from you again, and tha...Hey Tom! Wonderful to hear from you again, and thanks for the comments. Yes, the intersection between language and how things really are is my main focus these days, digging into philosophy (when you speak of formalities, those formalities are always anchored to something, but what if those anchors are themselves ill-defined?) and the subtle difference between semiotics (supertype) and linguistics (subtype) and the evolutionary influence.<br /><br />And as to me failing, well, you nailed it on the head, of course. :)Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10613480150660825848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249867.post-46397318985731134552010-11-10T15:19:39.066+11:002010-11-10T15:19:39.066+11:00It's a fascinating and infuriating subject, al...It's a fascinating and infuriating subject, all right. Usually it's easy for a person to pick a sensible meaning for a word from many alternatives, but how does that happen (of course, I'm completely ignoring all those shades of meaning to mention, and the effects of prosody as well)?<br /><br />As to gauging if you've failed in your essay, well, strictly speaking we'd never be able to tell, would we?<br /><br />Perhaps we need to work in some operational definition here - if your writing precedes some behavior on my part that seems to align with what you expected that your words might induce, perhaps the words have communicated roughly what you intended. This approach is used in the legal system to some degree. The effective meaning of legal terms gets established by years of court decisions. The lawyers (should) know these meanings, but a lay person would not.Tom Passinnoreply@blogger.com