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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 What a pile of BS! #157250 03/15/06 12:17 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC 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. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What a pile of BS! #157251 03/15/06 12:28 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont bugger. which in this case means, "agreed". formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What a pile of BS! #157252 03/15/06 12:28 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass 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... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What a pile of BS! #157253 03/15/06 12:43 PM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean Whoa, TEd. Sounds like you're a little agidtated Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: wideness #157254 03/15/06 01:03 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Quote: 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: wideness #157255 03/15/06 05:24 PM Joined: May 2002 Posts: 1,529 Aladamnbama the most watered s... T themilum veteran themilum veteran T Joined: May 2002 Posts: 1,529 Aladamnbama the most watered s... 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: wideness #157256 03/15/06 05:45 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York You need to delete about 4 more of those, milum. The other posts will narrow accordingly. Thanks for helping save my eyesight. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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