Came for the MTG artwork, stayed for the discourse. Great work, really got me thinking—must be quite ‘gettable’ mind-communication, then, by definition.
there's so much philosophy connected to this! I don't know where the line is between reasonable and unreasonable assumptions about who has read what, and there is no such line plus I shouldn't be using the term "reasonable" but I'm getting distracted here. i don't like the elitist-gatekeepy way it functions but I need the efficiency so I'll just name-drop: putnam, grice, Austin...
Cryptic command (textless edition) is a funny thing to associated with language theory.
Aristotle would be able to list all four things it does and in what order they're listed, I'm sure. Well, that's if he played MtG.
“This Magic card does” is rather analogous to "this sentence says" and “this word means”
now we need to introduce the concept of a transformative sideboard
Came for the MTG artwork, stayed for the discourse. Great work, really got me thinking—must be quite ‘gettable’ mind-communication, then, by definition.
good stuff!!!
there's so much philosophy connected to this! I don't know where the line is between reasonable and unreasonable assumptions about who has read what, and there is no such line plus I shouldn't be using the term "reasonable" but I'm getting distracted here. i don't like the elitist-gatekeepy way it functions but I need the efficiency so I'll just name-drop: putnam, grice, Austin...
often these are the same people who scoff at incoherent constinentals like Barthes saying "the author is dead"