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Article #1322Re: The nature of communication
From: Ron Nash
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1987 16:47
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1987 16:47
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In article <4750001@hpindda.HP.COM> seshadri@hpindda.HP.COM (Raghu Seshadri) writes: >It seems to me that if music were made up of symbols (which,by definition >merely stand for something else ) ... I don't know where this idea got started, but it seems that, in some cases at least, symbols refer not to something else, but to properties they themselves possess. Consider Nelson Goodman's example of the tailor's swatch: it refers to properties possessed by itself -- color, weave, texture, and so on (but not, of course, size, shape, location, etc.). Goodman calls this "exemplification," and in his book Languages of Art he applies the idea in an interesting way to the question of symbolic meaning in music. Ron Nash Center for the Study of Language and Information Stanford University
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!labrea!su-russell!nash From: nash@su-russell.ARPA (Ron Nash) Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Re: The nature of communication Message-ID: <354@su-russell.ARPA> Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 12:47:58 EDT Article-I.D.: su-russe.354 Posted: Wed Sep 23 12:47:58 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 03:06:54 EDT References: <2374@mmintl.UUCP> <4750001@hpindda.HP.COM> Reply-To: nash@su-russell.UUCP (Ron Nash) Organization: Stanford University, CSLI Lines: 18