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in conversing with certain strong acquaintances of mine earlier this evening (arguably the first of two thousand seven, although the starting point is quite arbitrary) we arrived - by way of a joke involving the word "farce" - at the idea of words that are what their definitions mean. the most perhaps obvious example of this is "word;" here are some others:
symbol
sign
signifier
this reminds me of the kurt godel's logic-system-eating-itself theorem that i read about a while ago and gosh darn it i wish I knew it well enough to explain it here. it's really interesting, though, and perhaps even mind-blowing. maybe i'll research it and post my results here, as one might be required to do were he or she enrolled in an online college course.
as tends to happen often in conversations and thoughts, we soon meandered on to different subjects (or non-); however i am intrigued by the aforementioned list and would like to add to it. i encourage my friends here to help contribute, as well
symbol
sign
signifier
this reminds me of the kurt godel's logic-system-eating-itself theorem that i read about a while ago and gosh darn it i wish I knew it well enough to explain it here. it's really interesting, though, and perhaps even mind-blowing. maybe i'll research it and post my results here, as one might be required to do were he or she enrolled in an online college course.
as tends to happen often in conversations and thoughts, we soon meandered on to different subjects (or non-); however i am intrigued by the aforementioned list and would like to add to it. i encourage my friends here to help contribute, as well