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the basis of this is simple enough, so maybe we might shift gears for a minute:
it depends on whether you believe that meanings are the reflections of forms or not.
if you do believe in such forms, then your argument follows.
if you dont, then mine does.
this is not a chicken-egg argument either: it comes down to how you understand meanings to come about--whether they are effectively divine creations or if you see them as historical in some way. when it comes to referencing data or scenarios, both lend themselves equally to abstractions that are pushed back into some mythical prehistory--so it is a matter of dispositions, how you approach the question, what assumptions you bring to it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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