[Xmca-l] Re: Fate, Luck and Chance

[Martin John Packer]

Annalisa,

How is it that form is not material? Would you, like Plato, have us believe that forms exist in some immaterial ideal realm?  No, surely the form of a material object is itself material. A word is a sound, or a series of sounds, to which we have in its articulation given a recognizable form.

Martin

On Nov 23, 2014, at 7:18 PM, Annalisa Aguilar <annalisa@unm.edu> wrote:

> Hi Helena,
> 
> The relationship of the word to culture seems to be about form, not material. Otherwise all sounds would be words and this is not the case. There is a relationship to material in that if we take the air away, nothing can be spoken. If I don't have any pen or paper, I can't write a letter. 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Annalisa