Re: Concept_sitting
| From: | Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 16, 2009, 23:40 |
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Den 16. jan. 2009 kl. 04.22 skreiv Sai Emrys:
> It seems to me that words *cannot* ever be fully defined concepts. For
> this reason, they cannot ever be atomic; there is always some further
> division of meaning that can be made, as there is always further
> definition that has not yet been elaborated and excised in previous
> cuttings.
There is, but this stuff also is dependent on context, and context
decides whether there's any point in further subdivision at all.
Language after all is not mathematics. It's for use between people
about things that matter to them.
LEF