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PhD certainly does stand for Piled Higher and Deeper, at least in this case:
It is obvious that truth in general depends on both language and extra-linguistic fact. The statement 'Brutus killed Caesar' would be false if the world had been different in certain ways, but it would also be false if the word 'killed' happened rather to have the sense of 'begat'. Thus one is tempted to suppose in general that the truth of a statement is somehow analyzable into a linguistic component and a factual component.....
NO! It is not obvious. This is nothing more than nattering on for the sake of hearing oneself talk. There is absolutely no meaning to any of it. It is a null set!
"Brutus killed Caesar." But what if Brutus means Caesar and Caesar means Brutus? And what if Brutus means polyhedron? And what if Caesar means incomprehensibility?
This is crap piled on crap. Sometimes a word is just a goddammed word. In fact a word is ALWAYS a word. All of this junk is nothing more than pseudo-intellectualism run amok.
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bugger.
which in this case means, "agreed".
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TEd, everything you say is.
one thing I noticed (first in the NYTimes obit) supports an agid/fulgid dichotomy: two of Quine's undergraduate students were Tom Lehrer and Theodore Kaczynski.
I've left a query in their guestbook...
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Whoa, TEd. Sounds like you're a little agidtated
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Can anyone tell me why this thread has gone w-i-d-e? I'm the only one who put any links, I think, and they're automatically short in this format.
milum, could you go back and edit out some of your ~~~~s? thanx
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Why me? How come Consue and the tsuwm don't have to go back and edit, hmm? Ok, I'll do it this time but I hope that next time you'll have the decency to ask some of those other people who tend to go wide.
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You need to delete about 4 more of those, milum. The other posts will narrow accordingly. Thanks for helping save my eyesight.
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