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goals and language?



Hey Judith,
 
    I love it when I can make you laugh, but I feel that if I explicitly tried I would probably fail.  I hear you on the TRS.  I can only try to speak from experience.  I want to use the language, but not if it's completely empty for me.  For instance the word -impredicativity- is not yet entirely solid for me.  I believe I understand the notion of final cause and -anticipation- is intuitive and familiar from experience.  I wouldn't want to use the words for the sake of conformity alone though.  That would be empty for me and an insult to you I think.  So I guess that I'll just have to grow into the vocabulary, becoming ever more confident with it's meaning and use.  I have used -impredicativity- tentatively for instance hoping that if I use it incorrectly someone will correct me.  Perhaps it would be a lot easier just to ask.  What excactly is an impredicativity?  What's comforting to know is that since we are each of us alive, we each have a natural born authority on the subject of life, a language that we alone know.  It's just a matter of bringing it into congruity.
 
Perhaps a lot of miscommunication happens because of differing goals.  Each here seem to have their own applications in mind.  We all wish to understand, but what we have in mind as being the fruit of that understanding seems to be different for each of us. 
 
On the "schizoid WE", believe it or not I am usually unaware of doing it.   Do you never do it?
 
 
David
 
 
P.S. Rodrigo, usted es muy estricto con usted mismo, en mi opinión.  Usted es inglés es fino y sus postes son buenos.
 
I hope you guys have a good weekend.