tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042142443470259188.post7727558739510159924..comments2023-05-13T07:41:26.217-05:00Comments on SOH-Dan: A Better Sort of Reader: therapyDaniel Lindquisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05443116324301716578noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042142443470259188.post-81650275753093886182011-06-09T12:23:53.335-05:002011-06-09T12:23:53.335-05:00That is something we could say. But I think it wou...That is something we could say. But I think it would be awkward, for two reasons:<br /><br />1) If something is nonsense, then it has no significant use to look for. If something merely has not been made sense of yet (by me), then it's something I can still intelligibly try to find the significant use of. But I can't draw the distinction this way if I just treat anything I haven't made sense of (yet) as nonsense. I can draw it this way if I treat "nonsensical" as a status I confer on signs of which I have satisfied myself it is impossible to find the significant use of. Of course it could be drawn some other way, but this strikes me as a natural way to draw it.<br /><br />2) In the context of 6.53, there's more than just one person trying to say whether a sign has a sense or not: <i>my</i> judgement does not settle the matter. Presumably the other party would insist that what they are saying <i>does</i> make sense, unless they can be shown otherwise. Barring a general way to decide the question of whether a sign has a significant use, 6.53 is still not offering a viable method of doing philosophy.Daniel Lindquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05443116324301716578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042142443470259188.post-56826139836472976442011-06-09T12:01:01.304-05:002011-06-09T12:01:01.304-05:00Shouldn't we say that, until we have made sens...Shouldn't we say that, until we have made sense of a sentence, it <i>is</i> nonsense to us. We could later make sense of it, but there's no need to for an induction. A string of signs is nonsensical if it has not been made sense of by someone (particularly, by me).N. N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05983492370711591794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042142443470259188.post-61049509354617130252011-06-09T06:01:33.070-05:002011-06-09T06:01:33.070-05:00My attempt to write shorter posts is having mixed ...My attempt to write shorter posts is having mixed results at best.Daniel Lindquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05443116324301716578noreply@blogger.com