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- From: sibun@PARC.XEROX.COM (Penni Sibun)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.csg-l
- Subject: Re: language issues
- Message-ID: <92Nov9.142402pst.29193@hmmm.parc.xerox.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 22:23:48 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: "Bruce E. Nevin"'s message of Fri,
- 6 Nov 1992 11:11:10 -0800 <92Nov6.121618pst.12597@alpha.xerox.com>
-
- (penni sibun 921109.1300)
-
- i have almost as much trouble constructing enormous msgs. as reading
- them....
-
- [From: Bruce Nevin (Mon 92112 07:38:16 through Fri 92116 14:05:06)]
-
- >what does meaning have to do with anything? why can't speech actions
- >be just like other actions, which presumably aren't mediated by
- >``meaning''?
-
- I would suggest that all perceptions "have" meaning, that is, any given
- perception is linked in associative memory to other perceptions. I'm
- not sure precisely what you (penni) mean by the phrase "mediated by
- meaning". Let me lay out a bit of what I think is going on.
-
- well, i actually don't believe in ``meaning'' very much. i think it's
- a systematic error that people tend to think actions that involve
- language have meanings and those that don't don't. i would think that
- pct would be exactly the kind of approach to expunge ``meanings''
- altogether (but then i see y'all using the term).
-
- cheers.
-
- --penni
-