[lit-ideas] Re: Try a Logic Problem

  • From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 08:02:26 -0700 (PDT)


--- Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Omar Kusturica wrote:
> 
> "Chair is no doubt a linguistic entity."
> 
> It is nothing of the kind.  The 'linguistic entity'
> is as much a myth as
> the 'non-linguistic entity'. 

*Is there some other suggestion for what a chair might
be ?

 As I said earlier, I
> find the
> fact/language distinction dubious.

*I have also indicated earlier that I find the
fact/language distinction dubious, but it seems that
we find it so on different grounds (surprize
surprize). Mine are that the establishment of a "fact"
involves the element of human perception, modulation,
and expression. But I don't think that a chair as such
is a "fact," since the chair exists whether or not I
know it. The statement: "I am sitting on a chair" is a
fact or expresses a fact if it is true.

O.K.

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