I Got Into A War With Jeff Huggings -- Love Him!

-- by JLS
---- for the GC.

JONES, "Strand 5", this blog:

"Possibly this is not the line which Grice is after.
If in fact Grice is looking for a narrower conception of
"central significance" then this broader notion of
significance (what we count as belonging to semantics)
provides a domain in which finer discriminations might be
facilitated."

-- Indeed.

I got onto a war with Jeff Huggins in a forum that Jones belongs to, CHORA, served by S. Clark, of Liverpool.

For Huggins was saying:

"It depends on what we mean by 'is'"

Replace 'is' by 'sex', etc.

This, Huggins calls "semantics"

-- vide "The rut is never right".

He wants to say, along with this Orientally surnamed (or Asian surnamed) author of "General Semantics" that the world is for bigger issues.

"Semantics" is the 'war on words' ---. If Grice is right that words are ONLY used to communicate, hate speech is a misnomer, and it is.

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As Huggins used it ('semantics'), I reacted: "Surely since Frege, "Sense and Reference", some philosphers have thought of semantics more highly than you care" -- impying "to do".

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He replied to the effect that 'words are fun'.