From: Scott Roberts (jse885@localnet.com)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2005 - 18:18:29 GMT
Marsha,
>Scott:
>I would not say that Quality and Intellect are readily interchangeable.
>They have different connotations.
Marsha:
I thought I better give you an example of where my confusion is coming
from. You stated that Quality and Intellect cannot be defined, but have
different connotations. What is 'connotation' if not a shift in
meaning? How do you expect to have your theory understood if your using so
many words without meaning?
Scott:
Words can have meaning without being definable. A connotation can be thought
of as "where one's mind is taken when hearing a word".
No one can give an exact, generally accepted, definition of what "meaning"
means, or "definition". If you doubt me, look at the branch of linguistics
known as "semantics".
Mathematicians have worked out something called "set theory", and it is
pretty much the foundation of all other mathematics. In all that theory
there is no explicit definition of the word "set". What one can say is that
it is defined implicitly in the axioms of set theory, and that its meaning
is the whole of set theory.
The MOQ does not define "value". Yet after reading Lila, one has different
connotations for the word "value" than one did before. So the meaning of the
word has shifted, yet it remains undefined.
- Scott
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