<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 3:04 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto">
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The <i>associations</i> of words are what contain, not just the
seeds of, but their actual, meanings.</div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Please explain to me how the association of one word with another or others tells me anything about the meaning of any if I know the meaning of none.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto"> This should be obvious. Look
at the word 'wicked' for example.</div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I can infer the meaning of wicked only if it associated with other words of which I know the meaning. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-gts</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto"></div></blockquote></div></div>