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>From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
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Subject: Generosity, a theory. ( Never MIND ! , "the medium is the message !)
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Date: 31 Jan 92 19:47:53 GMT
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In article <1992Jan31.000712.8292@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

MZ:
 It's all explained above, but I feel generous today, so I'll reiterate.
 The question of "In virtue of what does the meaning mean?" must be posed at
 each level of the intensional hierarchy.  The reason for the infinite
 regression consists in the fact that the representational function of the
 sign is taken to be dependent on its expressive capacity, or on some sort
 of direct connection to the object it denotes.  The cogitator's awareness
 (or, if you wish, computation) of each member of the infinite hierarchy of
 meanings is never an issue; on the other hand, the meaning's residence (in
 some intelligible sense of the term) in his mind (or whatever physical
 structure is supposed to pass for such) surely is.

Nous Autres:

 Remember McLuhan's conundrum, "the medium is the message" ?
 I do not believe that the King's decrees have clearly "dispatched"
 the prospect that the way in which the "meaning" inheres in the mind
 of the cogitator is via the specification and activation of a possibly
 infinite computation.  The REPRESENTATION, in the brain, of such a 
 computation IS the "meaning"/"structural association" at issue.
 Underlying this theory of meaning would be congenital Ur-meanings
 which are hard-wired, axiomatic bootstraps. 

 "the meaning's residence (in
 some intelligible sense of the term) in his mind" (the cogitator) 
 may be fullfilled by a cerebral representation which ENTAILS some
 finite OR infinite computation.


