SUO: Core Meanings and the SUO

[Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@oakland.edu>]

John F. Sowa wrote:
> 
> Doug,
> 
> I had intended to get around to your note of Nov 26 for some
> time, and I finally made the time to address it.  It raises
> some fundamental issues about differences in meaning that
> arise in different languages and cultures:
> 
> > I think there is more of a difference that you allow between
> > meaning variations in natural languages vs. meaning variations
> > in programming languages.

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Doug, John, & All,

I do not know if this helps with your particular issue here,
but one of the ways that I tend to think of it from within
a pragmatic sign-theory framework is to index every sign
to the "community of interpretation" that employs it in
the way that it does.  As limiting and special cases,
of course, a "community" can be a single person or
even a machine.

Many Regards,

Jon Awbrey

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