Posted: Oct 07, 2017 8:15 pm
romansh wrote:
But if Cito were here, he would gladly point out arrangements of atoms etc being retributive, glad, logical, semantic, etc does not make too much sense either.
The collection of words "arrangements of atoms etc being retributive ... " doesn't necessarily denote anything. Saying that a collection of words "makes no sense" is relative to you. Even if somebody else agrees with you, so what?
These endless rounds of "this makes no (or little) sense" or "this is important" are implicitly followed by "to me".
Retributive, glad, logical, semantic -- all of them just words. They may denote something to you, but they're not precise enough to talk about denoting in general. You can appeal to the dictionary, but you really need to take a poll. Then you have some survey research, and your poll is going to face inspection when you publish it and your methodology. You dream of doing so.
romansh wrote:But is useful to remember it is an illusion.
What's this argument aimed at? Nothing, as usual? Is it aimed at diminishing the significance of the questions you can't stay away from?