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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: The nature of communication
Message-ID: <2392@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 19:04:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: mmintl.2392
Posted: Fri Sep 18 19:04:41 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 21-Sep-87 04:08:37 EDT
References: <2353@mmintl.UUCP> <164@thirdi.UUCP> <2374@mmintl.UUCP> <3997@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT.
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Keywords: communication symbols messages

In article <3997@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> myers@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Bob Myers) writes:
|In article <2374@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
|>In article <164@thirdi.UUCP> sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) writes:
|>>[Kinds of messages]
|>>1.  Those that make statements.
|>>2.  Those that try to evoke specific experiences.
|>>3.  Those that stimulate and act as "inkblots" for the imagination of the
|>>    audience.
|>
|>Still, I think the original claim referred to the *symbols*, not the
|>*messages*.  Can you imagine symbols which can be used for messages of types
|>2 and 3, but not of type 1?
|
|Sure. How about music?

Are the constituent elements of music *symbols*?  I think not; and the fact
that they are not symbols, and cannot be used to make statements, rather
strongly corroborates the claim.
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