Hey Erin,
I wish I had more time write this, but I'm a bit swamped these days....
ERIN
Boeree said you were very bright and wondered what did you do? I have to
say this has been my favorite thread since I joined.
RICK
How flattering... I'm currently just a few months (and 1 bar exam) away from
being a lawyer.
BOEREE: The bat "samples" a different portion of the Sound. Or, even more,
he samples it in a different way -- more spatially, rather than tonally.
But the significance of the sample is where the subject comes in.
RICK
I'd be more comfortable with '...the bat samples a different portion of the
QUALITY." It seems (to me) confusing to insist that it's 'Sound' despite
the fact that the bat doesn't sample it tonally. But I think these are just
semantic differences, we seem to be operating off the same model.
BOEREE
What the sound means to the bat depends upon his bat-nature and bat-needs
(and maybe even his bat-experience), vs our human-nature, -needs,
and -experience. Food tastes different when I am hungry than when I am
full. I sample the Taste (capital T) differently because of my different
needs at one time or another. In a sense I am tasting both Taste and my
hunger or lack of hunger.
RICK
The same Quality can be 'smell' if sampled by your nose... and 'taste'
if sampled by your mouth. In this sense, Quality is like water, assuming
the shape of the container into which it is poured. It might be a good
taste if you're starving, or a poor one if your used to gourmet cooking.
In this sense, Quality is significance dependent.
I guess, for me, it's a matter of keeping judgments of significance
separate from the Quality to which those judgments apply. Again, I'm not
really sure that we disagree on anything other than semantics.... what do
you think?
BOEREE
This is getting a bit complicated!
RICK
But if it were easy... it would be easy.
rick
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