Re: Darwin, Evolution, the Animal Kingdom, and Man

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 12/05/04 

Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:35:01 GMT

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 21:18:52 -0600, Albert <albertwagner@cox.net> in
comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>patty wrote:
>> Albert wrote:
>>
>>> Lester Zick wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> Oh, certainly David's suggesting language be frozen in the present.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think that is what he is saying at all. I think he is making
>>> an argument for certain heuristics, rules of thumb, for the invention
>>> of words. Language is indeed a social behaviour. In order to
>>> effectively communicate, whether with language, images or artifacts
>>> requiring a model to understand, we should always try to leverage
>>> meanings from existing, well known, metaphors. E.g. the common roots,
>>> prefixes, and suffixes used in current words, common metaphors, etc.
>>> Such techniques can extend the language and yet the new user may
>>> intuit the likely meaning.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Quite so ! But if David meant anything like that, then he expressed
>> himself badly.
>
>I was just offering David the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps, as
>Lester says, he doesn't deserve it. Granted, it is out of
>character for David, whose usenet posts sound like snippets of a
>doctoral thesis written for a really anal committee.

You know, we all go through this benefit of the doubt period with
David because he does know history. I did and I see it routinely in
others. It doesn't really bother me one way or the other except I
suspect based on present day observation, David was the anal committe.

Regards - Lester

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