Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id FAA01867 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 30 Jan 2002 05:39:13 GMT Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:33:27 -0800 Message-Id: <200201300533.g0U5XRl13043@mail15.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [65.80.160.254] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: necessity of mental memes Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com> memetics@mmu.ac.uk Re: necessity of mental memesDate: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:02:38 -0800
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>>All velocity involves change, but not all change has to be a velocity
>>change; IOW, not all change is positional. The idea is a meme; it's
>>referent is not, and furthermore, it's referent is real.
>> >
>True. We have many tools to describe change, one of which is "time." Now
>matter how we describe it change continues to occur with or without our
>understanding of it. But what we call it influences how we see it and
>shapes what we believe about it. That's an internal matter.
>
It would not matter if we called it pfloug or tzorip, if what we as a language community meant when we said the term was indeed the referent of the term 'change' which we presently use.
>
>Grant
>
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