[TUHS] Plan 9 from outer space ?

Michael Usher musher at ucsc.edu
Mon Apr 20 12:27:12 AEST 2020


I think this reflects a very static view of hermeneutics.  Just because a
term "meant" something at the time of its first use, doesn't mean that one
should ignore all of the modification of that meaning subsequently.
Language is truly a virus of a type that evolves over time as it is
adjusted by its tree of hosts.

I think you can separate the initial intent of a label from its current
usage.

I wonder what mvs would have said to that.  Didn't he read sci.philosophy
at one point?
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20200419/5382235b/attachment.html>


More information about the TUHS mailing list