A question about the meaning of a designed object:
On 4/10/13 8:13 AM, "Charles Burnette" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> David and others interested in design objects
>
> In David Sless's paper 1) he writes "Anscombešs profound insight of relevance
> to communication was to realise that statements about an authoršs intentions
> are logically and empirically part of onešs reading of an authoršs text, not
> an intrinsic part of either the text or the author. "
>
> I agree with the first but not the last sentence, precisely because I take a
> different position regarding an object of thought/communication.
Re: the above discussion.
If a contemporary reader had knowledge that Mary Shelley was pregnant when
she wrote the novel Frankenstein, and still carried memories of the horrors
of thalidomide, would that knowledge and remembered experience become part
of the meaning of the novel?
Jerry
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Jerry Diethelm
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Planning & Urban Design Consultant
Prof. Emeritus of Landscape Architecture
and Community Service University of Oregon
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