Stephen Phillips
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624 appearances
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1 series
first heard Sep 2021
last heard Sep 2021
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Well, just that he has a knockdown argument why um
uh reference cannot be the only semantic relation.
Uh also he has much discussion of the the two I that there has to be this other
semantic relation where, um y when you say the moon, what you really mean is th the beloved's face is like the moon.
Or um
Yeah, you say Usher in the Sticks.
You're not really talking you're talking about the ascetics that are carrying walking sticks or the villages in the Ganga, Ganga Yam Gosha.
By convention, by noticing the convention that ties word and object.
We know.
that sometimes the word ganga by convention means the bank of the river.
So we don't need Lakshana, we just need references just that
You know, there Aksha can mean uh I or dice.
And we just have to know m there's not a double m you know ho homonyms.
You just have to know the conventions.
But Gangesha says, Oh, look at the thousands of usages we would have to know to understand what people mean when they use the word Ganga.
if it's all a matter of reference.
However, with this flexible semantic relation of Lakshana indirect indication, we use context and other cues to figure out what the speaker's intention is when he or she says something that on the surface meaning doesn't make sense.
Uh so so he he's very good on that.
He's very good on on on the utility of Lakshana, but he gets kind of bogged down when uh he looks at all the
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