RE: (on Young's "private language")

Honig wrote:

AF, we have only so much patience. State your point in a paragraph at most, or don't expect to be read. I think that was SS's point. Noone has any obligation (much less interest) to read anyone's linguistic masturbation.

Yes, David, truly, I expected (to paraphrase Sandfort) "the most members of this audience" to be drawn in by Plato's Republic, so as to entertain the nature of Sophist dialogue ...reflect on Wittgensteinian philosophy ...engage in concept analysis ...to sit and marvel on the colored numenons of Raphael ...to meander down linguistic folkways.... Yea, to even come away pondering The Allegory of the Cave.... Damn. ~Aimee