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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 11:58:00 EST
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- From: "Bruce E. Nevin" <bnevin@CCB.BBN.COM>
- Subject: meaning, meaning, who's got the meaning?
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- [From: Bruce Nevin (Wed 921111 11:48:22)]
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- (Avery Andrews (Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:22:28 EST) ) --
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- > So meaning depends on perceptions, but not necessarily
- >perceptions of any of the people actually involved in a linguistic
- >communication where the meaning figures.
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- This is "meaning" understood from the perspective of a supposed external
- observer. I believe that as we each create meanings we presume that
- they are external, universal properties which we are (imperfectly)
- learning.
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- Per the "kicker" in my aside to Bill, I believe that in our cooperative
- activities we are in fact collectively creating commonalities of
- meaning, though there is no way of being certain of that, and the
- process never reaches closure, so it is not imperfect learning but
- rather never completed creation. This I think is close to Sapir's
- perspective, refs and quotes if you want (but not right away).
-
- Bruce
- bn@bbn.com
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