Measured Man 7 1-4

1.) How do Mill and Frege disagree with Russell about grammatical sentences and meaning?
Mill and Frege believe that the meaning of a sentence should only depend on on the meaning of the words that make up the sentence, while Russell believes that there may be grammatical sentences and apparently meaningful sentences without meaning.


2.)Abel provides 8 distinguishing features of meaning. Please provide your own examples of each.

1. (Indication) "The rising smoke means fire"
2. (Cause) " What does the dent in the car mean?"
3. (Effect) "This means pain."
4. (Intention) "I meant to take the trash out"
5. (Explanation) "What does free mean?"
6. (Purpose) "That act has no meaning"
7. (Implication) "If there is a hurricane, we are not going"
8. (Significance) "Does the fact you're here have any meaning?"

3.)Why does Abel believe that science and metaphysics is involved in the discussion of linguistic meaning?
Because he says "We can talk meaningfully about the word only if we take into account what the word is like." Which means that you can only think about a word if you know what it's like.

4.)Aristotle provided 10 categories that defined “the range of applicability of a term.”(p. 65). Please provide your own example for each.
That a term is only applicable in a certain number of ways.

1. (Substance) "Charlie is a human"
2. (Quantity) "He is 5 ft 7 in."
3. (Quality) "He is not very bright"
4. (Relation) "He is the brother of Jerry"
5. (Place) "He is in Plymouth"
6. (Time) "He is there in January"
7. (Action) "He is walking"
8. (Passion) "He is flying"
9. (Situation/Position) "He is surrounded by assassins"
10. (State/Condition) "He is wearing a hat"

English vs. Gaelic in Gaeltacht

Create Laws to keep out non-Gaelic speakers

• to preserve their culture
• Stop the erosion of Gaelic
• Due to the drop in Gaelic speakers
• keep number of Gaelic speakers high
• get back at the English
• preserve cultural identity
• Sapir-Whorf: Lose Language, Lose Culture
• Oldest Spoken Language in Europe
• We're here, so learn our language

Promoting Gaelic Only laws is linguistic apartheid

• Separating people- Human Rights implications
• Financial implications
• No melting pot effect
• Tourism affected
• 21st Century
• part of globalization

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0206/p20s01-woeu.html

Good and Bad Presentations

As a class, we did fairly well on the presentations but we did have certain shortcomings. While on the whole, we did well, there were areas for improvement.
What we did well:
Outling the topic
Background on topic
Identifying Knowledge issues
and length of presentation

What we could improve:
Identifying the implications
Why it matters
and presenting the topic

I did okay, but kind of rushed through (didn't want to miss the bus) and dont think I got everything I want to get in.

What I did well:
Outling the topic
Background on topic
presenting topic
Identifying Knowledge issues

What could be improved:
Identifying the implications
Why it matters
length of presentation

Warspeak

"The United States urges Israel to avoid civilian casualties as it targets Hamas." -White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.

Here a White House spokesman uses warspeak.
targets= kill

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said "the operation will last as long as necessary."

warspeak
operation= attack

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-gaza28-2008dec28,0,427782.story

The Los Angeles Times