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Hi Martin,
Yes, language all by itself is a subject and within itself can have
mis-interpretations. Possibly that may be what is occurring here. I
fully get what you are saying.
Statements made in and out of context will in fact have many
different interpretations. To clarify, to me a statement that
something 'has' mass means that it has the kind of mass known as
physical objects. A statement that ridges are massey and then to go
and use mass as the metaphor of a ridge is perfectly fine. I was
concerned that to say a postulate has mass is of the nature that a
postulate then can be looked upon as a physical object. This is not
true.
If one were using the word mass as an adjective, one could say that a
ridge has mass as I stated above and one could also say that
postulates have mass in this same context. This would then be a
metaphorical use of the word mass. And it would not be literally true.
Am I mixing nouns and verbs? I don't know. The source of the
communication is who must clarify how the word mass was being used.
This does really point out how easy it is to get the wrong impression
and literally the wrong meaning from something as simple as
communication. It is something we all should be aware of and
communicate as specifically as possible.
Paul/Level 5 in progress
On Aug 6, 2012, at 8:31 AM, trom-requ...@lists.newciv.org wrote:
Subject: Re: [TROM1] What is a postulate - masses
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Hi Paul - sound like you're having fun? I think language is
metaphorical
and arguing, often a result of differing semantics.
MASSES, masses are masses and they are not by the way particles unless
you consider particles as a subdivisible singular. Masses are
something
that are shed from a thetan by mock-up and particles are something
that
are shed from masses. That?s usually the way we find things. (17
ACC-5,
5703PM01)
Martin
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