Cognition is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. The I-language exists ...
Who judges the degree of roundness? There is nothing in a mind-independent world that can make judgements about the degree of roundness. Judgements ca...
The SEP article The Computational Theory of Mind asks "Could the mind itself be a thinking machine?". This brings in the problem of consciousness, in ...
E-language is what is written and spoken in our daily lives, and the I-language is the physical mechanism of the brain. E-language is the externalized...
As the meaning of every word in language derives from convention, in what other way can a statement be analytic if not by convention. When driving thr...
Perhaps the advantage of a metaphor is that it doesn't need to be reduced to more primitive ones, but allows understanding by relating a complex abstr...
The meanings of words can change. For example, a dog can mean a domesticated mammal or it can mean a terrible film. If a dog means a domesticated mamm...
Consider "ya mnara lipo nchi". This object has no meaning until some one gives it a meaning. If there is no one to give it a meaning, it cannot have a...
It could be argued that any understanding we have is metaphorical. Some theorists have suggested that metaphors are not merely stylistic, but that the...
Is "ya mnara lipo nchi" true if there is no one who knows what it means. If no one knows its meaning, then it isn't a language, it's an object like a ...
I totally agree. I understand certain primitive concepts as innate, such as the colour red, pain , etc. We then use these primitive concepts to build ...
Yes. We observe something in the world and then name it "The Eiffel Tower". This something existed before we named it. As this something existed befor...
I limit innate concepts to primitive concepts, such as the colour red, pain, simple relationships such as to the left of, simple shapes such as a stra...
There seems to be three types of statements: "a bachelor is a bachelor", "a bachelor is an unmarried man" and a "bachelor is always rich". It seems th...
I agree that it is very difficult to put a clean break between a person and their environment. Enactivism discusses this. There are two aspects: First...
I see my brother enter the room and immediately leave the room. There is no doubt in my mind that I have seen my brother enter and leave the room. The...
Chomsky said concepts wouldn't exist without an I-language, so, the semantic part of an I-language are its concepts. Primitive innate concepts such as...
The SEP article The analytic/synthetic distinction writes: “Analytic” sentences, such as “Paediatricians are doctors,” have historically been characte...
It depends on the definition of "marriage" According to Merriam Webster, "A bachelor is an unmarried man". But Merriam Webster goes on to say that the...
Hume is a realist about causation, in that although he believes that causation is real in the world it is unknowable. He rejects the idea that we dire...
This answers the OP, "Are there analytic statements?" Yes, the E-language can be grammatical without making sense. One advantage of the I-language is ...
I agree, sentient life must evolve through interaction with the world in which it exists, which is why it has taken 3.7 billion years for life to have...
There is the I-language in the mind, and the E-language in the world. There is the word "love" in the E-language which refers to the concept of love. ...
If I touch a hot stove and see my hand blisters, in my I-language, I am conscious of pain and quickly remove my hand. But if my I-language was formed ...
For me, the mechanism linking concepts in the mind and language in the world can be explained by Hume's principle of the constant conjunction of event...
There is the E-language, whereby there are statements such as "A triangle has 80 degrees, and is a three sided polygon". The set "180 degrees, three s...
Chomsky sensibly believes that a basic range of concepts are innately represented in the human mind, because, after all, life has been evolving on Ear...
The Wikipedia article Objectivity (philosophy) notes: In philosophy, objectivity is the concept of truth independent from individual subjectivity (bia...
I'll keep reading. True, language is use. Wittgenstein PI para 23 "Here the term "language-game" is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the s...
Using the convention of "snow is white" is true IFF snow is white, perhaps one could say: "the sky is blue" is synthetic, the sky is blue is a posteri...
Many parts are observed in the world But from any set of parts, numerous mereological wholes can be discovered For example, from the 15 parts shown - ...
In the beginning, someone discovered something that had three sides and it had no name. They didn't discover a "triangle", they discovered something t...
Would you know what a child meant if they said something more complicated, such as "habari za asubuhi, habari gani" without having to look in a dictio...
Chomsky likes Locke. From IEP - Locke:Epistemology Locke defines knowledge as the perception of an agreement (or disagreement) between ideas (4.1.2). ...
True, the same word may be defined in many different ways. The Merriam Webster dictionary for "fire" lists almost 42 different uses. Though the same p...
Chomsky says that concepts cannot exist without language. See Noam Chomsky on the Big Questions (Part 4). 7min "Even the simplest concepts tree desk p...
Thoughts and concepts stand in for words From SEP - Analayticity and Comskyan Linguistics He sharpens this distinction in his (1986, pp. 20–2) by dist...
I believe that i) grass doesn't supervene on its properties, a typically short plant, etc. and ii) "grass" doesn't supervene on its properties, "a typ...
:100: Definately a worthwhile and invaluable thread. As the question in the OP was "If I were to ask Chomsky a question, it would be "Are there analyt...
Both aspects are necessary in language. On the one hand, we need predictability, otherwise, if you said to me "the grass is greener on the other side ...
Chomsky also makes the proviso that both the visual system and language need to be stimulated from things in the external world in order to operate su...
Chomsky refers to concepts, thoughts and language in Noam Chomsky on the Big Questions (Part 4) Closer To Truth Chats He says that the relation betwee...
1) In Euclidian space, there is equivalence between (a polygon with three sides) and (polygons, the internal angles of which sum to 180 deg), and this...
Being able to see the colour red and being able to see a link based on constant conjunction, as inherent functions of the structure of the brain, and ...
Your example may be reworded as: "a triangle is a plane figure, a polygon, where the sum of the internal angles is 180 deg", thereby defining "a trian...
Quine wanted to give a non-circular account of the distinction between analytic and synthetic sentences. Circular in that the notion of analyticity is...
In the statement "bachelors are unmarried men", "bachelors" should be thought of as a definition rather than a description. As a description "bachelor...
I agree. Whilst on the one hand there cannot be a priori knowledge of "the triangle" until it has been baptised in a performative act, on the other ha...
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