Re: Are conlangs fictional?
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 22, 2002, 11:27 |
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Jan van Steenbergen scripsit:
> This reminds me of Magritte's famous painting "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"
> (just paint on canvas)
Consider the case of a self-portrait of the artist at work. The body
of the artist isn't really a body, it's just paint. The palette
being used by the artist isn't really a palette, it's just paint.
But the *paint* on the palette really is paint! So do we here have
a case of something being represented by itself?
Ceci ne pas un message.
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