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

[Charles Brown]

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Eubulides <autoplectic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

^^^^^^^^^^
CB : I was expecting a better come back than that from you , Ian, like
the the relationship between the new molecules remains substantially
the same in the Detroit river or Charles Brown

Caudwell doesn't say the words or names endure forever, just longer
than their referent.