Re: Survival of the Fittest: What was Darwin's pragmatics?

On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:05:50 -0700, backspace
<sawireless2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 30, 9:20 pm, Greg Guarino <gdguar...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:44:11 -0700, backspace

<sawireless2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 29, 6:56 pm, hersheyhv <hersh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And a sieve (a dumb unintelligent environment) does not, in your
world, selectively retain items larger than the size of the holes?

That depends on your intent. It could mean that you pantheistically
view a sieve as actually having a mind

No, it categorically could not. Remember this bit: "a dumb
unintelligent environment"?

Dumb, blind, drunk or stupid environment. What is your intent with
these words? You tell me.

It shows just how desperately silly your position has become, doesn't
it? He mentions a sieve, a kitchen implement made of metal or plastic,
and even goes to the trouble of further specifying that it is "a dumb,
unintelligent environment", as if that was necessary. Yet you claim he
may have meant that the sieve had a mind of its own.

I submit to you that you have now claimed that no communication of any
kind is intelligible or reliable. Perhaps the letters I type here only
coincidentally form words in English, or, even more deviously, I have
cleverly disguised my subliminal crypto-hypnotic message as innocent
sentences.

I'll bet most people can guess what my "intent" is nonetheless.

Greg Guarino

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