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

Eubulides autoplectic at gmail.com
Tue Jan 7 14:42:12 PST 2014


On Jan 6, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:


> ^^^^^^^^^^
> 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.
>

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Happy to disappoint! :-)

How much longer do the names last relative to their referent? Does he have a decision procedure to adjudicate conflicting claims given the staggering amount of work that’s been done on reference and meaning in the 20th century and continuing ‘into’ the present?

E.



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