* Achim Schneider <bars...@web.de> [2009-02-20 15:17:14 +0100]: > Conal Elliott <co...@conal.net> wrote: > > > DRAFT version ___ comments please > > > Conal, please, PLEASE, never, EVER again use the word "meaning" if you > actually mean "denotation". It confuses the hell out of me, especially > the (I guess unintended) connotation that you analyse the meaning of a > particular instance's existence on a cosmic scale. > Please. These things have neither purpose in life nor has their life > any meaning, they just bleeding denote things.
The use of "meaning" in "meaning of life" is figurative / metaphorical, not literal; the literal meaning...uh...denotation is pretty much the same as what "denotation" means...uh...denotes. -- mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar
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