--- 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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html