List of agnostics
Phillip Greenlief
pgsaxo at pacbell.net
Sat Jun 30 02:32:35 CDT 2012
yep.
On Jun 29, 2012, at 10:27 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
Jesus Christ Superstar? Cats? Sir Andrew's whole ouerve?
On Friday, June 29, 2012, Phillip Greenlief wrote:
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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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