[MD] DMB and Me

[Matt Kundert]

Ron said:
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.

Yeah, but I think what I'm suggesting is that it appears as 
if you are treating "meaning" as both inclusive of linguistic 
and non-linguistic categories, whereas I'm suggesting 1) 
"meaning" is best approached by understanding it to be 
internal to "language" and 2) I am in no way shape or form 
suggesting that non-linguistic things (e.g., stoves) or 
non-propositional things (e.g., pain) do not effect our 
linguistic, meaning-generating behavior.

I can't tell whether or not you agree with (1) and (2).  It's 
part of the trouble with being unable to tell sometimes 
whether a response is a "riposte" or an 
"addition/augmentation."  The knowing whether something 
is one or the other effects greatly the meaning.

Matt
 		 	   		  
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