ONT Zeroth Law Of Semantics

[Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@oakland.edu>]

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Zeroth Law Of Semantics

Meaning is a privilege not a right.
Not all pictures depict.
Not all signs denote.

Never confuse a property of a sign,
for instance, existence,
with a sign of a property,
for instance, existence.

Taking a property of a sign,
for a sign of a property,
is the zeroth sign of
nominal thinking,
and the first
mistake.


Also Sprach Zero*

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