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Old 12-02-2006, 06:09 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by Bęthberry
The argument can be made that words mean what the people who use them intend them to mean, Thin, 'cause that's how words change meanings.
"The meaning of a word is in the use of it", said a man named Ludwig Wittgenstein. And at least as it comes to this prohibiting any eternal or transcendent "meanings" that might lurk behind the everyday words we use, I think he was right. But there is the head-banger involved in here too. If the words only mean what we intend them to mean, so how can we intend them to mean something in the first place?
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