[Glorantha] Re: Glorantha Digest, Vol 12, Issue 6

[Trotsky]

glorantha-request at rpglist.org wrote:

>"Soul" is still part of "the system with which we do our thinking,
>> >perception analysis and communication" though. Long phrase. 
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>> Good job there's a nice short word that has that meaning.
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>Trotsky:
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>>> As I've said, I think the problem is that most other people in this 
>>> discussion - Greg included - would not have thought of that as a 
>>> definition of 'brain'. 
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>OK, so what word would you use for that meaning, then?
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I'm not sure there is one, unfortunately. Note that I'm not criticising 
you - or anyone else involved in this discussion - for your choice of 
words, just stating that I believe that a lot of the disagreement is due 
more to mutual misunderstanding, than it is to anything substantive. Or 
at least, that's my impression.

> Shame there's no way
>of using dictionaries backwards, really.
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Indeed :) Well, there's thesauruses, of course, but they're not terribly 
helpful with this particular sort of problem.

-- 
Trotsky
Gamer and Skeptic

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