List of agnostics

Phillip Greenlief pgsaxo at pacbell.net
Fri Jun 29 16:49:28 CDT 2012


From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

Subject: Re: List of agnostics


All words? All?....to rise to the challenge grant, I ask about SLAB in V...
which may be an allusion, as has been discussed here metaphorically, I'm sure, 
to 

 

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i hate arguing semantics almost as much as i hate musicals ... but at some level 
- yes - words are signs that have meaning for something else (a thing that isn't 
a word). signs communicate, they are symbols that reveal meanings. so, at that 
micro-level, yes, a word is a sign that can be perceived as metaphor, for it is 
something pointing to something else. 


slippery, yes.
no contest necessary.
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