Jon Awbrey wrote:
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> 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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