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From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
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To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: memetics-digest V1 #130
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> That's what you get for sending email off before you're fully awake in the
> morning -- I should have added at the end of that message, which I hope will
> immediately precede this one in your incoming email folder:
>
> Just as one meme is differently encoded in different brains, but encoded
> nevertheless, so meaning is not uniformly, syntactically encoded in language,
> but is surely encoded there even so. And the main (only?) key to decoding it,
> once the syntax has been handled, is context. We might surmise that context,
> in some sense, is also the key for memes.
>
Meaning is a contextual thing. The concept of a single stand-alone
meaning is nonsensical; meanings are the meanings they are,
rather than other meanings, because they are distinguishable from
neighboring meanings in the gestalt matrix of language (the
semiotic web) by means of comparison and contrast. The number
5 can also be coded as 4 + 1 or 3 + 2 without the quantity differring
at all. Of course there are many distinct ways for language to be
used to represent the same referents, or what's a synonym for?
> --
> Robin Faichney
>
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