[Wittrs] [quickphilosophy] Re: An Anscombe Error Regarding Negation?
- From: "iro3isdx" <xznwrjnk-evca@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: quickphilosophy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:03:16 -0000
--- In quickphilosophy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Brampton
<martin.lists@...> wrote:
> responding to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quickphilosophy/message/81
> Martin:
> Isn't a musical score much more like an algorithm than a picture? A
> CD is much more like a picture of the sound of a symphony than a
> score is.
An excellent point.
But, then, I never did think that a picture theory of language could be
workable. In order for a picture theory to apply to language, we would
need to be mindless mechanical robots.
Hmm, maybe a better way of putting that: if language fitted a picture
theory, then it would be impossible to use language to express theories
of language (such as a picture theory).
Regards,
Neil
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