Re: The philosophical language fallacy (was Re: Evanescence of information (was Re: Going NOMAIL: Honeymoon))
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 5, 2008, 16:40 |
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On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:
> Oligosynthetic schemes suffer from many, though not all, of the
> problems that weigh down taxonomic schemes. It is not easy to
> break down reality to a restricted number of semantic primitives,
> and how do you handle proper names and such? You need an "escape
> mechanism" which allows for "importing" arbitrary lexical material.
> At least that is what I feel to be the case.
Yes; gjâ-zym-byn started out more or less oligosynthetic, but
has become less and less so as I've used it more.
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Jim Henry
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