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> Re: AbstractismDate: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 07:27:00 -0500
> "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>Hi Joe Dees -
>
>>The marks are configured by their maker to prompt very specific
>>apprehensions in their readers, and they succeed in doing so, not
>>perfectly, but quite well, and certainly better than random.
>
>Aesthetics is the study of how and why such configurations do what they
>do.
For calligraphy perhaps, but for just understanding the getting of the message across and the history of the word components of the message and how they come to mean what they do and be configured as they are, I believe that the field is philology.
>- Wade
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