[MD] DMB and Me

[Matt Kundert]

Heh, no.

> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:27:49 -0700
> From: xacto at rocketmail.com
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: Re: [MD] DMB and Me
> 
> Matt,
> Thus my meaming of differing types of meaning...
> a utility of distinction which is meaningfully useful.
> Else things get kinda meaningless..ya know
> what I mean?
> -R%
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Matt Kundert <pirsigaffliction at hotmail.com>
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Sent: Sat, March 20, 2010 5:16:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [MD] DMB and Me
> 
> 
> 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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