Wednesday, April 23, 2014

"Implicit"/"Explicit"; "Implicate"/"Explicate"--4


[The same words of Hillel, in Hebrew or translation, support both explications.  Each has merit.  But analogous with particles and waves, each will give only a single account of the saying.]

              Language too, like physical properties, has so much “folded into” it, in variable word meanings and roots, in interchangeable grammatical constructions, in altered readers and readings over centuries, that this “implicative” order of language, probably its fundamental reality, must remain indeterminate.

              God and the gods of language willing, this essay did not have too much “folded together” in it.  For I can see how that might                                        “complicate”    things.

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