[MD] DMB and Me

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Steve said:
What demand for intelligibility?

Matt:
Right--this was the problem with the discussion imprinted 
on my website.  Dave made that claim about Rorty and me, 
and I wrinkled my nose because I was unclear what 
quadrant it came from.

My effort to not denigrate the "ineffable" (don't fear the 
scare quotes!) is contained in the effort to suggest 1) that 
"intelligibility" (like "meaning," as I impressed on Ron's 
vocabulary) is something that only makes sense within 
language and 2) to talk a lot about linguistic unintelligibility 
(like the Davidsonian notion of metaphor) and how it is the 
motor of progress.

Hey!  Just like DQ!

Ron:
What I was implying by "meaning" in the context we were discussing
was the meaning of the temperature, the air we breathe,, the food
I eat, how I feel.
If I feel cold, wet, hungry and feverish...it's going to effect linguistic meaning
and context. If I drink alchohol, antidepressants, drugs....
recently been in a fight, car accident or attacked, suffering from cancer
chronic illness and constant physical pain.
which has an effect on the sense it makes within language.


These sorts of "meaning" make the most sense within language
because they are relative to personal experiences.