RE: Sound and Nihilism
May 1, 2015 at 2:59 pm
(This post was last modified: May 1, 2015 at 3:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-and yet, the abacus will still be capable of calculation..even in the absence of a "knowing subject" (awfully generous with your description of human beings there Chad..lol). An abacus is not, actually, a comp sys...of course, and so analogies to an abacus regarding comp systems are pretty much useless. This was, however, a great example of precisely what I commented upon. You're trying to weld meaning and "knowing subjects" together. Why?
Meanwhile....the meaning you've given an abacus is non-existent in the mind of my daughter, who has never before heard this silly calculation business. Your meaning, given by a "knowing subject" appears to be as insubstantial as the meaning applied by any other object which you wish to deride as "no meaning" relative to what -you- have assigned....doesn't it? That you think my board is not capable of inherent meaning(or, conversely, that you think that such a term even makes sense in context)...will not change how well sorted the tomatoes beneath it are. These "knowing subjects" appear to be extremely ineffective, and possess no function which the aforementioned "non-knowing subjects" do not(again, in context).
Meanwhile....the meaning you've given an abacus is non-existent in the mind of my daughter, who has never before heard this silly calculation business. Your meaning, given by a "knowing subject" appears to be as insubstantial as the meaning applied by any other object which you wish to deride as "no meaning" relative to what -you- have assigned....doesn't it? That you think my board is not capable of inherent meaning(or, conversely, that you think that such a term even makes sense in context)...will not change how well sorted the tomatoes beneath it are. These "knowing subjects" appear to be extremely ineffective, and possess no function which the aforementioned "non-knowing subjects" do not(again, in context).
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