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Posted by Luigi Donatello Asero on 11/19/41 11:34
"mbstevens" <NOXwebmasterx@xmbstevensx.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
> > "mbstevens" <NOXwebmasterx@xmbstevensx.com> skrev i meddelandet
> > news:rNsnf.2424$n1.1171@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> >
> >>Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>>you cannot have a negative definition
> >>>>
> >>>>It was never a negative _definition_ at all! Just an observation
> >>>>about a quality.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Negative as absence of a certain item or quality, for example a suit
> >
> > which
> >
> >>>is neither blue nor yellow
> >>
> >>Positive or negative, the comment in question wasn't a definition,
> >>_period_.
> >>
> >>"It's very unaustralian" was an observation, not a definition.
> >
> >
> > To me it was both.
> > As soon as you qualify something by an adjective you define it.
>
> You are trapped in the Semiotic post-structuralist party line.
>
> Here, try Mensky on for size, let this roll around in your primate
> wetware for a while -- don't reject it out of hand:
>
> "The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected
> it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong
> to seek the 'real meaning' of anything. A thing with just one meaning
> has scarcely any meaning at all."
>
That does not contradict what I stated before.
The fact that a definition can be considered always incomplete because noone
knows the whole reality but parts of it does not say anything against that
once you begin assign a quality (adjective) to the reality which you try and
describe (define) you have begun doing it.
Have a nice week
--
Luigi Donatello Asero
https://www.scaiecat-spa-gigi.com/sv/rom-lagenhet-nara-colosseo.php
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