Re: Tlvn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, wayne chevrier wrote:
>
> > The trick is to find the right categories for things you want to study.
>
> The final trick must be abandoning the categories when doing the final
> synthesis - otherwise one is apt to take them for absolute reality. I
> think the time has come where it is getting more insightful to insist
> upon the connection between meaning and form, rather than on their
> separation.
Well, I've never gotten the impression that either meaning or form
were ignored in either respect, in the similarities between them
or in the distinctive differences.  A few (and Chomsky may occasionally
be among these) tend sometimes to emphasize their difference at the
expense of semantic analysis, but these people are more or less at the
fringe.  My experience is that most linguists, like most people in most
issues, lie in the middle somewhere.


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