[Buddha-l] nice SKT adage

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Op 23-5-2013 9:02, James A Stroble schreef:
> On Wed, 22 May 2013 22:31:36 -0600
> Richard Hayes<richard.hayes.unm at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> On May 22, 2013, at 16:43, "Jo"<ugg-5 at spro.net>  wrote:
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>>> yaḥ paśyati sa paśyati
>> He who sees sees. Well, yes, that would be the case.
> Tautology.  Question is, who sees?
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In the TV show QI, where Stephen Fry asks all kinds of questions to a 
panel of comedians, there is a round called 'General Ignorance' where 
you can score extra negative points for an answer that echoes general 
misgivings. Richard and James both just hit this jackpot! Well done, Jo!
Of course words are no svabhāva's that always have their own meaning, 
independent of their place in a proposition. And besides that words are 
homonyms, metaphors and much more. But alas some people still live under 
the illusion that logic has anything to do with meaning. It is as if 
when a reader would react to this with something like 'Oh I see', and I 
would answer 'Yes of course otherwise you wouldn't be able to read an 
email'.

Erik