[lbo-talk] Caudwell on on language's inability to reflect the changing nature of reality

Eubulides autoplectic at gmail.com
Sun Jan 5 19:41:04 PST 2014


On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:


> CB: You might be correct, but to play devil's advocate to initiate a
> small investigation , imitating Heraclitis, the Detroit River is very
> fluid and changing, but our name for it remains the same for many
> years. Or , my name is Charles Brown through my whole life, but I'm a
> different group of molecules and otherwise changed from the beginning
> of my life.
>
> I suppose the more abstract the word away from the name...

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So names endure, but not forever; big deal.

E.



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