[lit-ideas] Re: Beauty, anyone?

  • From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:53:08 +0000

This brings us back to Oxford again. Under what conditions would your statement
of the day be true? If you can't identify such conditions, would we say that
your statement is intelligible/meaningful? 

Walter O.
Porter and Philosophical Bricoleur,
New College

Quoting Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>:

> On 2/21/07, Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > There is, but I'm trying to procrastinate.  Come to think of it, that
> > might not be a coherent concept.  Can one make a conscious effort to
> > procrastinate?  No, I don't think so.  I'm procrastinating then.
> > Simple as that.
> >
> 
> It doesn't matter what you mean by "procrastinate". I clearly mean something
> else. It's so subjective, it becomes meaningless. The whole world is a
> subject.
> 
> My statement for the day:
> 
> "heavy vents induce buttons with yellow ice to promote coffee in the summer"
> 
> 
> To some, this may mean "I really don't have time for this" [the most
> 'correct' interpreation] and to others something entirely different.  Have
> at it subjectors!
> 
> p
> 



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