Note for Language
From Karcevskij’s Gift
1 Is language variable? If so, where is substance of variability?
2 Variability occurs in substance.
3 What is not substance is untrue in variability.
4 Where is substance of language?
5 Letters are substance. Pronunciations are substance. Meanings are substance?
6 Meanings occurs in inner human being.
7 The sun rises in the east. It is true. The sun also rises. It is true in Hemingway.
8 Meaning is variable.
9 At where occurs variability of meaning?
10 If variability of meaning is true, substance in which variability occurs must be shown in front of us.
Tokyo October 23, 2005
Postscript
[Reference January 1, 2008]
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