Re: The philosophical language fallacy (was Re: Evanescence of information (was Re: Going NOMAIL: Honeymoon))

Den 4. jul. 2008 kl. 03.12 skrev Herman Miller:
>
> I was browsing around at random on Wikipedia today and ran across a
> page on the controversy over the classification of babblers
> (Timaliidae), which reminded me of the problems I ran into when
> making the taxonomy for Eklektu. At the time, I thought a
> classification would be useful in defining the meanings of words
> and the boundaries between one and the other, by defining a
> particular example as representative of the group, and using the
> classification to set the boundaries. But then it turns out that
> the groups in the classification are not as well delineated as you
> assumed.
I also made use of some classification in the early stages of
developing Urianian. In fact, I bought my English Thesaurus just for
that purpose (no Norwegian thesaurus existed then). Thesauruses
provide rather detailed classifications of words. However I found
this one messy, so I made my own. Can't refer to it in detail now, as
I'm not at home. But will later, if it's of any interest to the list.

LEF

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