Pragmatics/History

Complementarity

 * genetic vs. acquired
 * Semantic vs. pragmatic
 * Certainty vs. uncertainty
 * Empiricism vs. rationalism
 * Explication vs. implication
 * Objectivity! vs. subjectivity
 * Projectivity! vs. subjectivity
 * Dehumanization vs. humanization
 * Full automation vs. interactivity
 * Machine learning vs. human learning

Locke
This is included in the opening quotations of Literature/1923/Ogden.

This could be such an allusion that:

1923 Ogden and Richards




In other words, the symbol is not the symbolized, in short, so as to be aligned with "The map is not the territory" and the like.

"The influence of language upon thought" (as in the subtitle) varies from man to man, perhaps furthermore from case to case, as suggested. Then, dehumanization would be more or less unwise. No precise or wise symbolism without symbolists. Pragmatics is a must above all.

1929 Magritte


"This is not a pipe," as translated from the original French caption, is to say that the image is not the imaged.

1933 Korzybski


This is the dictum of Alfred Korzybski (1933) promoting general semantics. See also the map-territory relation and the like.

1940 Huxley


This is quoted in opening "Book One: The Functions of Language" in: See.

1949 Hayakawa


"The symbol is NOT the thing symbolized," for one. How many parodies there appear as if each varied!

1975 Krishnamurti


Jiddu Krishnamurti (c. 1975) explained: "it is like a man who is hungry. Any amount of description of the right kind of food will never satisfy him. He is hungry, he wants food."

1975 Putnam


Putnam's "anti-subjectivist revolution" is diametrically contrasted with the humanist or anti-objectivist revolution, as suddenly getting torrent since the 1973 oil crisis, as illustrated by, , , , and many others. He looks not so much revolutionary as reactionary.

1976 Chisholm


Suggesting pragmatics, the title is deliberately contrasted with

1982 Berman


Compare the three quotes respectively with:
 * Literature/1923/Ogden/Opening quotations
 * Literature/1923/Ogden/Opening quotations
 * Literature/1923/Ogden/Opening quotations

Cf. The subtitle of

1982 Eco



 * 1:1 map

2001 Gaiman

 * -- Neil Gaiman (2001) Fragile Things