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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
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- Subject: Re: Folk Theories of Meaning
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.172855.17544@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:28:54 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Nov17.172855.17544
- References: <1992Nov16.125741.22619@news.Hawaii.Edu> <1992Nov16.122343.17501@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Nov17.152113.6891@psych.toronto.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.152113.6891@psych.toronto.edu>
- christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov16.122343.17501@husc3.harvard.edu>
- >zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
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- MZ:
- >>If you don't feel that being bound by
- >>logic is a *moral* obligation, would you still have any basis for a
- >>reasonable expectation that your tooting your car's horn at a bunch of
- >>Samoan Hell's Angels does not *mean* your informed consent for them to
- >>peel off your skin and rip out your heart? Do you have a glimmer of
- >>understanding that your human rights are not worth the market value of
- >>the chemicals that comprise your anatomy, *if* there be no such things
- >>as matters of fact about meaning?
- >>
- >>cordially,
- >>mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- >>" -- I shall speak bluntly, because life is short."
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- CG:
- >Succintly put, Mikhail, but an English quotation in your sig file? <gasp>
- ><:-O
-
- Pending the incorporation of the eighth bit into the Internet signal,
- I have taken the liberty to translate this Russian quotation into
- English. To allay your discomfort, look below.
-
- >--
- >Christopher D. Green christo@psych.toronto.edu
- >Psychology Department cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
- >University of Toronto
- >Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1
-
- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
-