From: joan vollmann (todvalley@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 03:41:46 GMT
David Buchanan <DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org> wrote:Ian and all:
Ian says:
Anyway, your preparedness to weasel the semantics out of the distinction
kind
of proves Rorty's point. Why cling to the vain hope that words have some
fundamental semantic distinctions, when you yourself illustrate how easy it
is to weasel them out.
dmb replies:
Huh? Some people are weasels, so words have no meaning? What kind of logic
is that? I don't mean to be rude, Ian, but that's just nonsense. And who
said anything about "fundamental semantic distinction"? Not only am I NOT
clinging to any hope about such a thing, I don't even know what that is.
Sheesh. I guess there's some kind of virus going around.
"Fundamental semantic distinction" has many wonderful negative capabilities.
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