Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id PAA02769 (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 15:46:17 GMT X-Originating-IP: [137.110.248.206] From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: neccesity of mental memes Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 07:40:28 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <LAW2-F13A9NEgxursem000183b2@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Jan 2002 15:40:28.0816 (UTC) FILETIME=[71914100:01C1A9A4] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >
>Because we are using a natural, uniform and ubiquitous component of the
>universe as our stick, not something arbitrary or rooted in
>anthropomorphism. It does not matter what you call the unit of measurement
>(since language is itself arbitrary and by mutual convention), so long as
>your peers understand it, and it fulfills the above requirements. We are
>not assigning a value to the protom-radius, we are naming it; it will
>remain the same length whatever we call it, and that takes the
>arbitrariness out of the referent, even though linguistic signs themselves
>are, for the most part (excluding, say, onomatopoeic words), irretrieveably
>arbirary.
> >
> >Steve
> >
Now we're talking the same language.
Grant
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