[MD] Truth and the Linguistic Turn

[ian glendinning]

Spot on DMB.

Whilst standalone defintions have some usefulness in dialogue - as I
may have bemoaned several times before - they are really part of a web
of "interconnectedness".

I recently posted a review of Hofstadter's "Fluid Concepts and
Creative Analogies" and have been discussing with people over at the
"Inclusionality Forum" where this exact point is also at issue. That
no "discrete" object can really be thought of in any isolated way in
any closed domain.
http://www.psybertron.org/?p=1567

Regards
Ian

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:27 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Marsha said to Ron:
> ..I don't think the net-of-jewels model fits into the MOQ. This bother me.
>
> dmb says:
> You know that bit about the mythos being analogies upon analogies? I use the net of jewels to imagine the structure of language. Each word and each concept has meaning only in relation to other words and concepts. Spider webs work to illustrate this idea too but jewels are so much nicer.
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