[Wittrs] Re: The Meaning of Knowing Meanings
- From: "SWM" <SWMirsky@xxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:54:11 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Gordon Swobe <wittrsamr@...> wrote:
> Why can't you answer simple questions? Do you understand English? Or not?
> Apparently not!
>
> -gts
>
What IS your problem and why do you insist on getting nasty, Gordon? Moreover,
you have yet to answer MY questions, posed well before what you write below.
Should I then rail at you with a "why can't you simply answer my questions" as
you do to me above?
Should I ask you if you understand English?
After all, I asked you what you think it means to know or understand anything
before you asked me if there was a difference between my understanding English
words and Chinese symbols but you didn't deign to answer the question I posed.
Why do you think I have an obligation to answer your later question when you
don't think you had any obligation to answer my earlier one?
SWM
> --- On Tue, 4/13/10, SWM <wittrsamr@...> wrote:
>
> > From: SWM <wittrsamr@...>
> > Subject: [Wittrs] Re: The Meaning of Knowing Meanings
> > To: wittrsamr@...
> > Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 5:03 PM
> > --- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> > Gordon Swobe <wittrsamr@> wrote:
> >
> > > >> You would not understand the words in this
> > sentence if
> > > >> they appeared in Chinese. Right?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The issue is what does understanding the meaning
> > of the
> > > > symbols consist of!
> > >
> > > You understand English words. You do not understand
> > Chinese symbols.
> > >
> > > Right?
> > > -gts
> > And what do you think understanding English words, or
> > Chinese words, consists of? Is it just "magic"? -- SWM
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