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Re: Folk Theories of Meaning

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From: Michael Zeleny
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:28
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In article <1992Nov17.152113.6891@psych.toronto.edu>
christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:

>In article <1992Nov16.122343.17501@husc3.harvard.edu>
>zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:

MZ:
>>If you don't feel that being bound by
>>logic is a *moral* obligation, would you still have any basis for a
>>reasonable expectation that your tooting your car's horn at a bunch of
>>Samoan Hell's Angels does not *mean* your informed consent for them to
>>peel off your skin and rip out your heart?  Do you have a glimmer of
>>understanding that your human rights are not worth the market value of
>>the chemicals that comprise your anatomy, *if* there be no such things
>>as matters of fact about meaning?
>>
>>cordially,
>>mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
>>" -- I shall speak bluntly, because life is short."

CG:
>Succintly put, Mikhail, but an English quotation in your sig file? <gasp>
><:-O

Pending the incorporation of the eighth bit into the Internet signal,
I have taken the liberty to translate this Russian quotation into
English.  To allay your discomfort, look below.

>-- 
>Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
>Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
>University of Toronto
>Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1

cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
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Subject: Re: Folk Theories of Meaning
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