What is the meaning of the two expressions in bold in the sentence below?
This is as much as to say that, in its immediacy, denotative discourse bearing on a certain element (a living organism, a chemical property, etc. ) does not really know what it thinks it knows.
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"This is as much as to say that X" means that previous statement(s) amount to the same thing as stating X. "in its immediacy" means, as far as I can gather, that the immediate nature of denotative discourse explains (or is consistent with) that fact that it "does not really know what it thinks it knows".
- "This is as much as to say that X" means that previous statement(s) amount to the same thing as stating X.
- "in its immediacy" means, as far as I can gather, that the immediate nature of denotative discourse explains (or is consistent with) that fact that it "does not really know what it thinks it knows".
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"This is as much as to say that X" means that previous statement(s) amount to the same thing as stating X.
"in its immediacy" means, as far as I can gather, that the immediate nature of denotative discourse explains (or is consistent with) that fact that it "does not really know what it thinks it knows".
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