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Re: [ontolog-forum] Separating Pragmatics And Semantics -- Or Not

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From: Jack Park <jack.park@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:35:11 -0700
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Jon Awbrey wrote:
<massive snippage>
 > I don't have much experience with any form of knowledge that I'd dare
 > call "pure", but it's certainly a rule of thumb to say that semantics
 > is about meaning.  The road forks at that point -< some people saying
 > that meaning is a matter of the relation that a sign bears toward its
 > objects, some folks thinking that meaning is a matter of the relation
 > that a sign bears toward its intended concepts or qualities, and then
 > the road forks again -< what in the world do we intend by our notions
 > of "concepts" and "qualities", anyway?  Then there are those pilgrims
 > that jump on their donkeys and ride off on all of those paths at once.    (01)

And Yogi Berra famously said: "When you come to the fork in the road, 
take it."    (02)

:-)    (03)

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