From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Sep 03 2004 - 21:26:58 BST
Arlo:
> >Except by your own theory, everything you've been saying consists of
> >"semiotic structures" which are "not real." :-)
>
>
> Exactly!!! But this does not mean semiotic structures are not useful.
Ah, good old pragmatism.
> Language allows us to communicate, to share attention, to plan, to
> remember, to organize experience, etc. Without semiosis we would be stuck
> with "nothing" but a ongoing stream of "primary experience". We would have
> no way to remember, categorize or represent this experience in any form.
And no way to survive.
> We just need to remember that our "representation" of reality is 100%
> structured by values and saliences of whatever semiotic system we are build
> these representation "through".
Why remember? For all "practical" purposes, our representations are
reality. Anyway, according to your theory, all we can remember are
representations.
Platt
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