Re: Tlvn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

"Raymond A. Brown" wrote:

Ray, nice to have you back!  I look forward to your future
posts. :)

> >Tom Wier wrote:
> >> Oh, I never meant to imply that they're completely unrelated --
> >> indeed, there are highly related, but distinct notions.  I was merely
> >> carrying on the generally accepted notion of the "autonomy of syntax":
> >> a sentence like "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" makes no
> >> semantic sense whatsoever,
>
> But it does - it just needs context.
Well, that's what I said in a later post -- I was operating under the
assumption that unless a context is mentioned, you have to take
the sentence on its literal face-value (that is, the one that takes the
paradigmatic semantics of each of the words involved).

But you're right: I should have been more specific myself.

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