Re: Why Europe is so Contrary

From: Grant Callaghan (grantc4@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu 21 Nov 2002 - 22:55:07 GMT

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    Forgive me if I presume. But then I'm not writing for publication or peer review. I'm just offering an opinion, which is all any of us have to offer at this time.

    Grant

    >
    >On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 04:31 , Grant Callaghan wrote:
    >
    >>Since language is a subset of memetics
    >
    >Dubious, unproven, and, while purposedly axiomatic, not very useful, since
    >we don't really know much about language, either.
    >
    >Prescriptive linguistics aside, (as well as my own personal fave,
    >philology), we don't know what the Romans really did with language anymore
    >than we do the Picts.
    >
    >They communicated, yes. Communication is a wide-ranging prescription.
    >
    >Memes don't _necessarily_ communicate anything. There are many analogs of
    >language and memetics, but, to put one or the other into a set structure
    >is, well, presumptuous.
    >
    >Although the memes in the mind model might require such a set theory.
    >
    >- Wade
    >
    >
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