Re: [jboske] ti (was: RE: kau

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Invent Yourself scripsit:

> I, on the other hand, take ti literally. It refers to physical objects and
> physical distances relative to speaker and listeners. 

Well, my position is close to this one, but I allow certain bending of space
such that some things (tangible, point-at-able things) are closer or further
away than a pure Newtonian (or Minkowskian) metric would allow. For
example, if I were a waldo operator, I wouldn't hesitate to say "ti" for
an object close to the waldo, even if my body were distant from it. I might
almost say, with Daniel Dennett, that it's the location of my point of view
that counts.

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