In article ... bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) writes:
kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin) writes:
>Saffron, or Karl, or Salt. Something like that.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Could you please explain the category that these are examples of? (Don't
say "words"!) :-)
``words'' are an important concept in Pop, just as ``symbols'' are in Lisp.
The category is, of course, ``names related in some plausible way to the
actual name of the labguage I have in mind''. (Anyone who thinks this isn't a
``proper'' category, read Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, by Lakoff.)
Ahem.
Saffron is (if I recall correctly) a flavouring, as well as a colour. Salt is a
flavouring. Doesn't everyone know who Karl is?
No, not that one. The philosopher.
Appropriate to this newsgroup?
Karl Popper. (The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Conjectures and Refutations,
The Open Society and its Enemies, The Poverty of Historicism, etc.)
Enough clues yet?
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Regards, Kers.
"If anything anyone licks, they'll find it all ready in sticks."
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