I think you should read the reponse I sent to our friend in China. When we
are analysizing the meanings of words, we are not doing language, indeed
these words are no longer really words but case studies in the analysis of
mind. And to answer your question, words in a closed book are not words but
marks. We endow words with meaning when we read them, not the other way
around.
d
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:26:43 +1100, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>My statements were referring more to
>>philosophical nature of language. How it stands in itself, not how it
used.
>>There is a big difference.
>
>I don't know how language exists outside its usages. How can it? Are
>words unread on a page language (I suppose they were used by the one who
>put them there)? If a tree falls...
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>A
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