List of agnostics

[Keith Davis]

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> See Sign in wikipedia or in C. S. Pierce (or your favorite semiotician)
>
> QUOTE: "There are things that are just things, not any sign at all; "
>
> As I was saying with V.'s SLAB and Augustine's BRICK...................
>
> Pynchon does contain just about everything if one keeps rereading him
> while on the plist.
>
> I dispute your slide from " a word is a sign that can be perceived as
> metaphor."  if an alphabetized on paper/bark/etc. word  by being in letters
> is what you call a sign, OK. Some of those signs are NOT metaphors.
>
>   *From:* Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>
> *To:* Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>
> *Cc:* Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>; Ian Livingston <
> igrlivingston at gmail.com>; Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>; "
> pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, June 29, 2012 5:49 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: List of agnostics
>
>
> *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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>


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