From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 01:09:41 MDT
At 11:50 PM 8/31/02 -0700, Dan Fabulich wrote:
>> > from now on my statements
>> > about the sun are to be *taken* as referring to that
>> > ball of gas, and *not* any possibly weird thing going
>> > on in people's brains.
>> Obviously it's neither, except in shorthand.
>Whot, yo mean, like, common spoken English? ;) What language did you
>*think* he was using? ;)
>For that matter, what language are YOU using? From whose frame of
>reference is it supposed to be the case that you could "know" that the
>Earth is spherical and "know" that the Earth is flat? The middle
>ages? No... The modern era? No... So where then? Which culture is
>it that licenses this sort of talk? Or are you just making it up as
>you go along...? :)
Oh my god, a terrible thing has happened, my Socratic irony detector just
broke down. Evil smoke came out of it, and now it's just lying there on the
bench smelling awful. I have o way to tell whether Dan is being cleverly
amusing at my expense, or agreeing with me in an enactment of Corbinian *We
Common Folks Know How It Is* realism. Waaaahhh.
Damien Broderick
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