Re: The word "symbol"

"Lauri" <lauri.pietarinen_at_a> wrote in message news:vyhLe.48$wc5.36_at_read3.inet.fi...
> David Cressey wrote:
> > A few days ago, VC commented on my use of the word "symbol" saying that
I
> > was inventing new terminology. I'm trying to restrain the urge to rant,
> > and just give a sober reply.
>
> I thought that this quote from Lewis Carroll's "Through the
> Looking-Glass ", Chaper VIII, migh bring some new viewpoints to this
> conversation.
>
>
> The name of the song is called "HADDOCKS' EYES."'
> 'Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?' Alice said, trying to
> feel interested.
> 'No, you don't understand,' the Knight said, looking a little vexed.
> 'That's what the name is called. The name really is "THE AGED AGED
> MAN."'
> 'Then I ought to have said "That's what the song is called"?' Alice
> corrected herself.
> 'No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing!
> The song is called "WAYS AND MEANS": but that's only what it's
> called, you know!'
> 'Well, what is the song, then?' said Alice, who was by this time
> completely bewildered.
> 'I was coming to that,' the Knight said.
> 'The song really is "A-SITTING ON A GATE": and the tune's my own
> invention.'

Or,

"when I use a word, it means precisely what I want it to mean, nothing more nothing less."

and, later,
"the question is who is to be master." Received on Sat Aug 13 2005 - 06:26:40 CDT