[lit-ideas] Re: The Loves of the Wisdoms
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 15:31:25 -0230
Bilingual Competent Adult Language User: "Would you like to know what it's
called in Russian?"
Walter O.
MUN
Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
> > To which McCreery says:"Take the table, qua table."
> > Paul replies: "No need to *take* it as a table, it is a table."
> > "But how can you know that?" McCreery presses, seeing that he's got Paul
> > backed into a corner; "unless you know 'table' qua 'table', how can you
> > know *this* is a table?"
>
> Children often employ a theory of meaning which is hard to refute.
>
> Competent Adult Language User: 'Why is that called a cup?'
>
> Child: 'Because it's a cup.'
>
> Robert Paul
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