So I have this Philosophy/Linguistics class about what it is, exactly, that language does. Yeah, lots of fun. We were talking about how language is really a set of signifiers - "cat" only means "cat" because we all agree on it's significance - and the Prof then, after some exposition, used the following example:
"I mean, you wouldn't say 'I like to paint' to signify 'I'm bored' without some sort of special comunication involved."
Wow...we're special.
Posted by Chris at January 28, 2005 11:21 AMI think we all owe the existence of this website to the fact that we like to paint.
Posted by: John at January 28, 2005 11:43 AMI like to paint all the time at work.
Posted by: Nate at January 28, 2005 01:18 PMwhat class is it?
Posted by: roy at January 28, 2005 01:32 PMIt's PHIL360...I can take pretty much anything this semester, so I went outside of my major, yet I picked something that might as well be English anyway. Whatever.
Posted by: Chris at January 28, 2005 03:01 PMi never had him as a prof. but i did learn a lot about philosophy of language, mostly in the western tradition of russell, moore, wittgenstein, ramsey, austin.
Posted by: roy at January 28, 2005 04:28 PM