Hi David, I will assume that you are not giving me the idiot treatment. So I will explain to you why you are wrong! First, the distribution of ink is not arbitrary! By analyzing the the distribution of the ink, you will observe reoccurring structures (forms), we will call them letters. Again, these letters are not distributed arbitrarily. further analysis reveals another form, lines. Yet further analysis reveals even more structure! These structures are not an artifact of the human mind, but truly physically existent. As the continues with the analysis of the ink one will identify recurring more structures and segmentation. Eventually, you end up with a syntactic description of the structure. This has nothing to do with an artifact of the human mind. regards Keith. Am 10.02.2012 um 10:43 schrieb David Starner:
First, there's no syntactic structure in a book. There's only ink. Anything above that level is purely an artifact of the human mind.