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Science > Philosophy |
| User: |
"BuddhaThu" |
| Date: |
02 Aug 2005 02:03:50 PM |
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Re: goofy posters |
I am one of those goofy posters, esp. with words, -- mainly because it
helps people to focus on what I am talking about. Humor helps people
see things in a very different and creative way. I find it essential.
This might not have anything to do with your post, but here is a goofy
story one of the grad students have written to me.
I am Wittgensteinian. I made it a huge spiel regarding the Cartesian
Metaphysics of "extended matter."
Matter is never extended.
There is no time in the past that matter was ever "unextended." It
is a problem that plagued the issue of infinite divisibility. The
"ed" on the end is not a reference to time or history of a past
when matter was "unextended." Likewise, there is no such thing as
"matter in extension." Matter is self-equated with extension.
It is one of the classic categories of grammatical errors.
He decided to make a sideline detour of this category over to the
phrase "lawfully wedded wife" and asked the same question. "Is
there a time in the past a wife is never wedded?"
I told him 'yes,' when the woman is not your wife. (Drum roll... ka
ching!) ;-)
Humor is the best way to see the markings of ambiguity in language.
Ambiguity is not a true grammatical error.
If the audience caught the joke, the intentions are known. Therefore,
it is not a grammatical error. It just needs context for clarity.
Real grammar error is when the context of the intention is confused or
not known.
Just to tell people why I joke and kid around a lot. ;-)
Don't want to give anyone a false impression that I am some psycho. :-)
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