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  • Shared Meaning
    Working on pithy.

    Meaning is shared only insofar as the context demands. Even words that seemed to create shared meaning in one context may, when used in a different context, demonstrate that the meaning was never shared to begin with.

    Yelling "slab" may get a house built, but it could just be that in the context of a construction site, it was sufficient for the yeller to mean "hand me what is next on the pile" and the receiver to have understood the word to mean "hand me the hard rock thing cut into a manageable shape."

    I suck at pithy.
  • Welcome PF members!
    When I searched his posts on PF, it didn't seem like he was doing much posting over there either.
  • Welcome PF members!
    Hey Hanover, thanks for thinking of me.
  • Welcome PF members!
    Thanks, Tiff. Nothing like smiles and hugs to make someplace new feel like it will be a new home (even if an infrequent one). Did @Banno follow you over?
  • Welcome PF members!
    You aren't allowed to have a busy life. Resolving the problems in political philosophy simply cannot wait.
  • Welcome PF members!
    Late to the party and I'm not staying long, but howdy hey. I'll try really hard to check in every now and again.