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Re: Basic Semiotics
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 12:41 pm
by Impenitent
indubitably
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Re: Basic Semiotics
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 12:55 pm
by Age
Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Sun Sep 28, 2025 5:14 pm
Age wrote: ↑Sun Sep 28, 2025 12:15 pm
But, and again, I could give 'that word' a meaning, and so it will have meaning, and thus not be meaningless.
You can't really do that. You're not the author of that instance of the word. You did not write or utter it at that particular point in time.
'This one', once again, could not be more closed, nor more blind, here.
Why are your views so absolutely narrowed, here?
Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Sun Sep 28, 2025 5:14 pm
In fact, even if you're the author of that instance of the word, you can't alter its meaning, because you would have to go back in time. You can't retroactively change the meaning of an uttered word. What you meant by an uttered word is what you meant by it at that point in time.
What you can do instead is assign a meaning to a new instance of that word.
What does, ' a 'new instance' of 'that word' ', even mean, exactly, to you?
Re: Basic Semiotics
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 1:00 pm
by Age
Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Sun Sep 28, 2025 10:58 pm
Age wrote: ↑Sun Sep 28, 2025 12:15 pm
Also, why do you claim that 'most words' are meaningless?
The English alphabet has 26 letters.
If every word is 1 or more letters long, how many words is that?
That is 26 x ( 26 ^ inf - 1 ) / 25 where "inf" refers to the number of natural numbers.
In other words, the number is infinite.
Compare that to the number of English words used in practice.
Okay.
Now, did you claim that 'most words' are meaningless for the very simple fact that because there 'could be' a supposed and alleged 'infinite' number of words, imagined, then 'this', in and of itself, means that 'most words', which are not yet even imagined, have not been provided with 'meaning/s', yet?
Re: Basic Semiotics
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 1:03 pm
by Age
Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Sun Sep 28, 2025 11:15 pm
The average length of an English word is around 4.6 letters.
Let's say that the maximum number of letters in a word is 5.
That gives us around 12 million possible English words.
But in English language, there are less than 700,000 meaningful words.
So how many meaningless words is that?
More than 11 million.
Of course, I am talking about
intended words here.
'Currently', how many so-called 'intended words' do you have, living, inside of what you call, 'your mind', roughly?
Re: Basic Semiotics
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 10:36 am
by Fairy
Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Sat Sep 27, 2025 7:41 pm
I’ve noticed that many people struggle to understand what definitions are.
You have to open your clown chakra
