From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sat 24 May 2003 - 16:50:43 GMT
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> From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
> > I got it; I just don't agree with it, for a plethora of good solid
> reasons,
> > which I have been giving here over and over and over again...will
> > nothing penetrate your self-constructed filters? A bad definition is
> > just that - a bad definition. Defining something adds nothing to
> > its credibility if the definition is bad; it simply highlights
> its
> > lack of same. You're trying to tell people that the mail service is
> > the letter. It just doesn't wash. The letter is necessary for
> > there to be something TO mail, and before it's mailed, it's still a
> > letter.
>
> Joe, I think Wade is trying to say that by writing a letter the idea
> of having a service to mail it is included_ the one can 't exclude the
> other. And yes, before a letter is mailed it is still a letter by
> definition but not by ' meaning ', it isn 't mailed ! There is a tic
> and tac about this kind of stuff.
>
Of course one knows how to communicate (speak, write) when one
forms the intention to do so. But one DOES form the intention to
communicate, and more than that, to communicate specific information;
information that one cognitively holds before one communicates it, as
cognitive memes.
>
> What's the point of having a mail service if noone ever writes letters
> that were to be mailed !? Within the concept of writing a letter and
> having the intention to mail it, the idea of a mail service is part
> of the equation.
>
But one must have concept and intention, and those are internal things.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kenneth
>
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