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What makes a sentence meaningful?
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Post: 56048651_1 created on Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:31 amPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:31 am
When we communicate with each other, what is it that makes our utterances meaningful?
 
     
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Post: 56048651_2 created on Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:32 amPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:32 am
 
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Post: 56048651_3 created on Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:33 amPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:33 am
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When we communicate with each other, what is it that makes our utterances meaningful?
Mutually agreed upon definitions. -sigh- Point?
 
     
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Post: 56048651_4 created on Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:34 amPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:34 am
 
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When we communicate with each other, what is it that makes our utterances meaningful?
Mutually agreed upon definitions. -sigh- Point?
Then how do we understand novel utterances?
     
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Post: 56048651_5 created on Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:35 amPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:35 am
Meaning can only derive from consciousness.
 
     
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Post: 56048651_6 created on Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:36 amPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:36 am
 
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When we communicate with each other, what is it that makes our utterances meaningful?
Mutually agreed upon definitions. -sigh- Point?
Then how do we understand novel utterances?

As in utterances in novels? The heck does that mean?

A meaningless sentence is the opposite of a meaningful sentence. It's pretty binary in that sense. Gertrude Stein straddles the fence, but I'd say she makes no sense personally.
     
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Post: 56048651_7 created on Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:38 amPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:38 am
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Awesome...fragment of some sort.
 
     
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Post: 56048651_8 created on Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:38 amPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:38 am
 
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When we communicate with each other, what is it that makes our utterances meaningful?
Mutually agreed upon definitions. -sigh- Point?
Then how do we understand novel utterances?
Through explanation and acceptance via viral use. I.E. catch-phrases. There's an entire subject dedicate to this, why are you here?
     
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Post: 56048651_9 created on Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:38 amPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:38 am
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Meaning can only derive from consciousness.
Say a computer says a proper english sentence (ex. with microsoft sam or something). It isn't conscious but I could understand it.
 
     
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Post: 56048651_10 created on Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:39 amPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:39 am
 
     
 
 
 
 
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When we communicate with each other, what is it that makes our utterances meaningful?
Mutually agreed upon definitions. -sigh- Point?
Then how do we understand novel utterances?

As in utterances in novels? The heck does that mean?

I think he means the use of a word to describe something other than its definition. So if I were to say that all the posts in this thread typed in chat-speak.
 
 
 
 
     
 
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Post: 56048651_11 created on Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:40 amPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:40 am
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When we communicate with each other, what is it that makes our utterances meaningful?
Mutually agreed upon definitions. -sigh- Point?
Then how do we understand novel utterances?
Through explanation and acceptance via viral use. I.E. catch-phrases.
Can you elaborate?
 
     
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Post: 56048651_12 created on Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:43 amPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:43 am
 
Structure
Premises
Terms
Definitions
Philosophy

In that order.
     
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Post: 56048651_13 created on Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:44 amPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:44 am
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When we communicate with each other, what is it that makes our utterances meaningful?
Mutually agreed upon definitions. -sigh- Point?
Then how do we understand novel utterances?
Through explanation and acceptance via viral use. I.E. catch-phrases.
Can you elaborate?
Do you have a point? If you answer that for me I'll elaborate.
 
     
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Post: 56048651_14 created on Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:44 amPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:44 am
 
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When we communicate with each other, what is it that makes our utterances meaningful?
Mutually agreed upon definitions. -sigh- Point?
Then how do we understand novel utterances?

As in utterances in novels? The heck does that mean?

I think he means the use of a word to describe something other than its definition. So if I were to say that all the posts in this thread typed in chat-speak.

Not sure I follow... Example?
     
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Post: 56048651_15 created on Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:44 amPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:44 am
If you expand you vocabulary and if you make it more deep and full of whichever feeling you are experiencing at that time
 
     
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