My claim is not that the symbols have no power, exactly... it's that the power comes from what the symbols represent.
An analogy would be "meaning is the electricity; words are the transmission lines". The words are important, and can be extremely important... power lines, phone lines, and network cabling are all ways that electricity is transmitted, but they all have different effects on what that electricity does.
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Re: in as far
Date: 2004-06-25 05:37 pm (UTC)An analogy would be "meaning is the electricity; words are the transmission lines". The words are important, and can be extremely important... power lines, phone lines, and network cabling are all ways that electricity is transmitted, but they all have different effects on what that electricity does.