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Re: Taking things literally is a metaphor: [Re: blewmeanie]
    #8934671 - 09/15/08 05:21 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

Hey, I'm not going to complain if my position's irrefutable.  :snub:


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Re: Taking things literally is a metaphor: [Re: deCypher]
    #8934686 - 09/15/08 05:24 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

Without demonstration or physical action, though, it seems language is ultimately meaningless.

Without demonstration or physical action I understand the above post. :crazy2:


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Re: Taking things literally is a metaphor: [Re: deCypher]
    #8934705 - 09/15/08 05:28 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

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The Cypher said:
Hey, I'm not going to complain if my position's irrefutable.  :snub:




:rofl:


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Re: Taking things literally is a metaphor: [Re: blewmeanie]
    #8934716 - 09/15/08 05:31 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

i dunno about the lemons but


but what if you only got a lime any way. lime is sublime but any who.

how can one not demonstrate anything just being is enough of a physical action alot of people dont want to accept that but the trees, mushrooms and other stuff tends to


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Re: Taking things literally is a metaphor: [Re: Icelander]
    #8934761 - 09/15/08 05:38 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

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Icelander said:
Without demonstration or physical action, though, it seems language is ultimately meaningless.

Without demonstration or physical action I understand the above post. :crazy2:




You may think you do, but do you really?  :eek:

And hey, do you get PMs?  I sent you one today referring to paranoid privacy concerns of mine.


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Re: Taking things literally is a metaphor: [Re: Veritas]
    #8936097 - 09/15/08 09:24 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

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Veritas said:
Again, the proof would be in the lemon.  If you bring me a glass of iced tea with a slice of chocolate cake floating in it, we obviously do not have a shared meaning of the word "lemon."  :shrug:




And this is a good example of where we find mutual understanding during linguistics, a triangulation onto an object that we have likely both summoned into the thoughtscape with 'lemon'. It is easy for each of us to go to this similar spot in our respective psychological universe and feel the feeling of similarity.

Certainly one builds up certainty around their apples and oranges, but what about the scientists who were recently mapping our fermions and bosons?

And what about those before us who would have had to create more intangible words; love, jealousy, hate?

How can my lemon be your lemon if I love lemons and you do not?


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