Biblical Hebrew Forum

[B Rocine <596547 AT ican.net>]

At 12:55 AM 3/22/99 +0200, Rolf Furuli wrote:
>
>On the basis of the results of psykholinguistics, it can be shown that
>meaning is connected with concepts in the minds of living people and not
>with words uttered or written. Each written word is a semantic signal of a
>particular concept in the minds of people speaking the same language and
>having the same presupposition pool. Such concepts have a core meaning but
>they become more fuzzy as their edges are approached. 

I don't buy it! ...unless you admit that *fly* meaning insect is a different
word than *fly* meaning zipper is a different word than *fly* meaning
tarpoline, etc.  I.e., all these *fly*s just happen to be homonyms, maybe
with a shared derivation and maybe not.  And if they are indeed several
words which happen to be homonymous, what help is your idea that a word has
a single core meaning?  What's the difference between your idea and the idea
that one word has several meanings?  

Shalom,
Bryan


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