[B-Greek] APOLUTRWSIS

Mitch Larramore mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 18 08:16:15 EST 2007


--- Barry <nebarry at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> 1) There is no such as the innate meaning of a word,
> only its usage in context.
> 
> 2) Get a good lexicon, and look it up.  Better yet,
> look up the citations, if at 
> all possible, in context.  That should help...
> 

What if I argued as follows:

All words have innate meaning, and it is this
characteristic, and this only, that distinguishes one
word from another word. Words have semantic domains,
and within each domain nuances, but to say a word has
no "innate" meaning 'assumes innate meaning' in words
to affirm that they do not have innate meaning. For
example, you used the word "innate" instead of
"elephant." (Was there something already assigned to
the word 'innate' that distingished it from 'elephant'
and therefore you chose it for this usage (context)
and not elephant?)

I seems silly to me, but having said that, I assume
this is a linguistic statement (that words don't have
innate meaning). So, could you explain what this
statement is suppose to mean?

Also, why do we post questions out here if not to get
others' perspective. Every question asked out here
could be answered with "look at several commentaries
or lexica (hence, this site has been shut down)." I
did look at my new BDAG but I was not satisfied that
it answered my question.



Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas


 
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