The £20 note is a concept in the mind which may be instantiated in particular locations in the world. The £20 note exists as a concept in the mind, re...
How do you know, as it's not possible to prove that something doesn't exist. Are you inferring that the Mariana Trench, for example, doesn't exist bec...
I agree with @Sam26, and also that the concept of "concept" is fraught with problems. However, how would it be possible to use the word "democracy" in...
Davidson's T-Sentence such as "schnee ist weiss" means snow is white uses a word in inverted commas to refer to something in language and a word not i...
If our knowledge is by description, then "Santa Claus" is no less nor no more fictional than "The North Pole" Denoting phrases For Bertrand Russell, "...
"Pegasus" and "Santa Claus" do exist in our world, which is why we refer to them as if they exist in the world, but this is a world that exists only i...
I can point to any set of words within a language and give the set a name. For example, I can point to {"creator", "universe"} and give it the name "g...
Not according to the SEP article Fictional Entities, which write: "While London and Napoleon are not fictional entities, some have thought that the Lo...
The North Pole, reindeer and "real" world are as "fictional" as Santa Claus if relations don't ontologically exist in a mind-independent world. Santa ...
There is a belief that we travel through time at the speed of light. Sabine Hossenfelder: Do we travel through time at the speed of light? If this is ...
Although @Javra rightly points out that there is the unknowable in principle and there is the unknown in practice, I don't agree that this renders my ...
Subterfuge is about deceit, in that we are being deceived in some way. Are we being deceived that the unknown is in fact known? As @Javra writes, ther...
Form and content, brains and minds Is the mind and brain a Cartesian duality or a phenomenological unity. What is the relationship between the brain a...
In the referential theory of meaning, words mean what they refer to in the world. Words are like labels attached to things existing in the world, in t...
I believe that there are limits to what language can explain about the word because of the intellectual limits of the human brain, in that language ca...
Yes, I was making a claim that our private subjective concepts of a particular word cannot be the same, in that it is impossible for them to be the sa...
If there were no intellectual limitations to the brain, I could have understood Tarski's Semantic Theory of Truth by now. The Old Man and the Sea as C...
Words are public yet meaning can be private A word is a public object Words are public objects. They only have a use because they are public objects t...
Words objectify what they refer to A word such as "mountain" is a physical thing as much as a mountain is a physical thing. The "mountain" is as much ...
Words objectify what they are referring to. "Morality" identifies morality as a thing, "mountain" identifies mountain as a thing. This is how language...
It is the nature of words to objectify what they are referring to, to identify as a thing, whether it be "mountain", "pain", "searching" or "wanting"....
Words and action I will have to change what I previously wrote, from " A particular word may have a set of meanings. The set of meanings doesn't chang...
It would obviously be impossible to arrive at an all-inclusive definition of morality (for example). All we can do is strive to use words to better un...
But isn't it just those things that we cannot express well in words, such as justice, ethics, morality, honour, wisdom, etc, that are exactly those th...
It's quite easy to talk about the fact that bees and butterflies can see ultraviolet, ie, clearly not ineffable, yet can anyone actually describe what...
I should have explained myself better, in that a particular word may have a set of meanings. For example "blue" = {the colour blue, the emotive state ...
I should have been clearer about distinguishing between the different meanings of a particular word and a particular meaning of a particular word. A p...
Why do people attend gymnastic competitions in their millions to watch gymnastic routines if not to share the experience of the gymnast. The visitor m...
I agree as well with the later Wittgenstein, in that language is a set of language games, where the purpose of language is to do something, change the...
Quote: "It's not easy to talk about something that can't be expressed in words." Bertrand Russell in the Introduction to the Tractatus wrote "Mr. Witt...
It depends on how ineffable is defined The Britannica Dictionary defines ineffable as "too great, powerful, beautiful, etc., to be described or expres...
A stone has an uncountable number of potential uses. It can be used to hammer in a nail, be used in a game to skip over water when thrown, be used as ...
If I touch a radiator, sometimes I notice that I quickly pull my hand away, grimace, put my hand into cold water and experience a pain. If I see someo...
I think we are saying the same thing. Continuation I know very little about the concept of "continuation" in computing, other than it gives a programm...
I don't see that there is a necessary link between what something "is" and any use that something may have, in that something may exist and yet have n...
Definitions don't need to be observer independent. For example, the Cambridge Dictionary defines beauty as "the quality of being pleasing, especially ...
Meaning is use If people had no use for coffee, then there wouldn't be a word for coffee, and the word "coffee" wouldn't be used in language. However,...
One puzzle is how can we talk about something that cannot be put into words. Another puzzle is how can we talk about something that can be put into wo...
I can put the form of something into words even though I may not be able to put its content into words Private feelings cannot be expressed in words: ...
Similarly, if we lived in a spatially 2D universe, we would observe things appear and disappear for no logical reason. Yet, because we live in a spati...
@"ucarr" @"Athena" The battle between facts and feelings. The relationship between facts and feelings There are various combinations: 1) I feel someth...
@"ucarr" @"Athena" Logic and grammar There was no magical moment when non-human animals became human animals. I cannot imagine a magical moment when o...
The OP proposes: "Either all cognition is cognition of appearance, in which case there can be no cognition of noumena, or there can be cognition of th...
There is language and Language Lakna Panawala's article What is the Difference Between Humans and Animals Brain makes sense to me. She wrote: 1) The m...
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