I am a SonOFpeRdiTioN

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Is there some meaning to the letters that are capitalized? Also if SU offers to lend you any philosophy books make sure he has not dropped them in the urinal.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Thanks for clarifying that.

Pay no attention to him. Your version was better.

And welcome aboard.

[I.J. Reilly]

Unless I am missing something, there doesn't seem to be any story here,

http://www.cougarboard.com/noframes/...tml?id=3068016

Unless the whole of the story is that you were named something else and then you changed it.

Oh well, one less thing for me to read.

Welcome.

[pellegrino]

Welcome SonOFpeRdiTioN. I am pleased that you chose to use the pellegrino-approved template to introduce yourself.

[wuapinmon]

Welcome Son of Perdition (I'm not going to try to get the right capital letters).

It's about time we settled the Cyprus question. Turkey's entry to the EU is hung up over it, and I once spent an afternoon in a jail cell in Nicosia (true).

The right answer should be that it belongs to Aphrodite.

So, Greece then? You're golden!

Thank you, wuap, for taking the time to write me a question to answer.

Sovereign nation despite anything said to the contrary.

We shall be great friends. And know that I rarely mean anything that I say because authorial intention is a fallacy.

[wuapinmon]

Hmm. So do you also consider Gottlobe Frege's distinction of "sense and reference" meaningless?

Well, that's neither here nor there. Sense and reference refer to different things than the putative intention often assigned to an author's work. For example, if I write right now, HuskyFreeNorthWest is a very cool and funny guy; look at his numerous posts for examples of his wit and charisma. People might assume that I'm kissing his <redacted>; they might agree with me (unlikely), they might assume that I want something from him. I deny my intention in my readers. Sure, I have an intention in doing so, but HFNW and everyone else's interpretation of what I write cannot know what I mean, no matter how much they think they know my intention. Hell, even if I write that I said what I did about him to make him smile, you cannot believe what I say at face value. The historicity of my text is key to your reader response.

Frege wanted us to think about me being wuapinmon and Mac Williams. wuapinmon doesn't mean just me, it means, "What's happening, mon?" and Mac means Son and Williams means Son of William, and so on. Knowing what I mean when saying my name, the sense of it, is boring, and I disagree that the reference can give us much about the sense unless we ignore the reason why you think I write what I write.

So, I side more with Wimsatt, Jauss, Iser, Gadamer, and Eliot.

Also, regarding Frege, while I can separate the man from his ideas, some CUFfers do not take kindly to citing avowed Nazis. I prefer to look at his influence on the golem-rhyming Gershom Scholem's work, and leave all that other stuff behind, but not everyone will abide by that distinction.


Finally, I ask the <redacted> questions around here! I'm totally kidding.

[LA Ute]

Welcome! I'm a philosophy major and attorney too. One of my best memories from undergrad was a girl at FHE asking me what my major was. When I told her it was philosophy, she looked at me right in the eye and told me I was going to hell. She didn't like the fact that I chuckled.

Do they philosophy as a solitary major now? In the 70s BYU required a second major along with philosophy.

[thesaint258]

Do they philosophy as a solitary major now? In the 70s BYU required a second major along with philosophy.

Yep. I forget when it changed, but I'm glad it did. They have some fantastic teachers there.

[happyone]

Just what we need, another lawyer

Any way welcome, welcome anyway

[Rosebud]

Hi SonOF. Sounds like you'll get along just fine here.

[LA Ute]

Hi SonOF. Sounds like you'll get along just fine here.

Nice to see you here, RB. Love the avatar but can't you find a hunky guy who can actually act?

[wuapinmon]

Well, that's neither here nor there. Sense and reference refer to different things than the putative intention often assigned to an author's work. For example, if I write right now, HuskyFreeNorthWest is a very cool and funny guy; look at his numerous posts for examples of his wit and charisma. People might assume that I'm kissing his <redacted>; they might agree with me (unlikely), they might assume that I want something from him. I deny my intention in my readers. Sure, I have an intention in doing so, but HFNW and everyone else's interpretation of what I write cannot know what I mean, no matter how much they think they know my intention. Hell, even if I write that I said what I did about him to make him smile, you cannot believe what I say at face value. The historicity of my text is key to your reader response.

Frege wanted us to think about me being wuapinmon and Mac Williams. wuapinmon doesn't mean just me, it means, "What's happening, mon?" and Mac means Son and Williams means Son of William, and so on. Knowing what I mean when saying my name, the sense of it, is boring, and I disagree that the reference can give us much about the sense unless we ignore the reason why you think I write what I write.

So, I side more with Wimsatt, Jauss, Iser, Gadamer, and Eliot.

Also, regarding Frege, while I can separate the man from his ideas, some CUFfers do not take kindly to citing avowed Nazis. I prefer to look at his influence on the golem-rhyming Gershom Scholem's work, and leave all that other stuff behind, but not everyone will abide by that distinction.


Finally, I ask the <redacted> questions around here! I'm totally kidding.

See, this is why I quit doing the welcome wagon wuap qwestions. I spend time crafting a quality question, or in this case, a quality answer, and then people don't respond.

[New Mexican Disaster]

welcome son. Great moniker. Where did you live in NM? And what the hell were you doing in Cyprus?

[John McClain]

SOP, as another new member to CUF, I welcome you Since we are both attorneys, I can only surmise that we have been very successful in driving down the property values on this board. There goes the neighborhood!

[byu71]

Welcome. I am glad to have you here.