The drsmax favorite sentence meme

[drsmax]

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The drsmax favorite sentence meme

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[raygunn_revival]

Whose sentence is that? Your own?
Quine?
Fodor?

[drsmax]

The first is Quine, from the first page of Word and Object.

The second is Leyner from somewhere in the middle of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist.

[bd1]

My favorite sentence is:

I eschew obfuscation. That's why I abhor sesquipedalian tendencies.

[drsmax]

Your favorite sentence is two.

[bd1]

Okay wise guy, so what if I can't count?

I eschew obfuscation; that's why I abhor sesquipedalian tendencies.

[drsmax]

Vun! Vun sentence! Ah ha ha ha ha!

*thunder strikes. bats screech*

[uberdionysus]

Entification begins at arm's length; the points of condensation in the primordial conceptual scheme are things glimpsed, not glimpses.

Weird.

Entification being the making of entities?

Things glimpsed as opposed to sense-data? So I form the idea of an entity after seeing it, not from the act of seeing? I guess I'm not following.

[drsmax]

The idea is that first you acquire the concept of an object, and only later do you aquire the concept of a sense datum.

In your terminology: you see thing, form and idea of those things, and only later do you form the idea of seeing.

[uberdionysus]

So the concept of 'seeing' would be an 'emergent' property? Like: you see a thing, but only after putting thing in 'Unique Object Part of Larger Class of Similar Objects' do you start to form the concept of entities (or of seeing)?

I guess I don't get the difference between 'things glimpsed' and 'glimpses'. Is Quine saying that the sense datum isn't as important as the way we categorize the sense datum?

Jeesh. I never read Quine but that sentence packs a whole lot of stuff. Someone told me he's funny - is that true?

[drsmax]

I say "yes" to your first and third questions

[drsmax]

I'm totally into it. However, I must confess to not knowing what libretto is, and I'm too much of a lazy ass to google it.

[drsmax]

Ok, cool. I'm totally into it. I'll email you a bunch of stuff.

The Smelly Silent Kid's been writing!? since he left WPU...

[anonymous]

hey, if you could, take a quick look and feel cozy inside that you helped shape my paranoid manifestations by talking to me about fire extinguishers in your coolass classroom.

:"Sampson, Simpson, I stick to my story. I'm from Jamaica, MON."
:"Oh yeah? If you're from Jamaica, what part of Jamaica are you from?"
:"Right next to the beee-ach, BOY-EEEE!"