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- From: burt@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Burt Voorhees)
- Newsgroups: sci.cognitive
- Subject: Re: Meaning (not Theory of)
- Message-ID: <burt.722371136@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 18:38:56 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.200717.11887@ausom.oz.au>
- Sender: news@cs.athabascau.ca
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- lad@ausom.oz.au (Lyn Dawson) writes:
-
- >Something I've just come across may be of interest, if not scientific:
-
- >"The Map is Not the Territory"
-
- From Count Korzipsky (spelled wrong, I'm sure), General Semantics.
- There are lots of fun variations on this:
- "The menu is not the meal"
- "The picture in the ad is not the product."
- etc.
-
- >"The meaning of your communication is the response you get - if you
- >don't like the response - vary your communication"
-
- This sounds like some of Werner Erhard's bullsh*t. It has only a
- limited validity, and raises questions of "meaning for who"? But it
- can also be used to beat people over the head, telling them that
- the reason they're leading such miserable, rotten, lousy lives is
- that they are miserable, rotten, and lousy, and they should "take
- responsibility for their own lives because they create their own
- world."
-
- >regards
- >--
- >Lyn Dawson InterNet lad%ausom.oz.@sol.cc.deakin.oz.au
- >East Brighton
- >Victoria
- >Australia "Subvert the dominant paradigm"
-
- Should we make subverting the dominant paradigm the dominant paradigm?
- regards
- burt voorhees
-