(April 13, 2010 at 1:08 am)Saerules Wrote:The_Flying_Skeptic Wrote:I bet you three tigers in a post that Adrian and most people know that words are words. words are words: (i better try explaining myself before someone accuses me of trolling) doesn't everyone know that we could have called horses 'cows' and cows 'monkeys' and we can right now but that would only be confusing and unnecessary?
Or were we instead aware that words are entirely arbitrary and utterly meaningless beyond what meaning we ascribe to them? Are we just now discovering semantics (and her deeper subjective roots), TFS?
yes, that's what I meant. doesn't everyone know that?