6/9 Meeting

“Why do we call something a ‘number’? Well, perhaps because it has a direct relationship with several things that have hitherto been called number; and this can be said to give it an indirect relationship to other things we call the same name. And we extend our concept of number as in spinning a thread we twist fibre on fibre. And the strength of the thread does not reside in the fact that some one fibre runs through its whole length, but in the overlapping of many fibres.” ---Part 1 #67

-Discussed this passage. CL posited that the individual fibres could represent the uses of the words while the rope represents the overall sense of the word.
-SE pointed out that this metaphor could extend to constructions in grammar; individual uses of the construction are like fibres in the overall rope that is the construction.
-Discussed how unexpected uses of words or unexpected uses of constructions are used in poetry.