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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...
December 06, 2022 at 14:37
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...
December 06, 2022 at 11:30
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...
December 06, 2022 at 09:44
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...
December 05, 2022 at 09:28
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, "...
December 04, 2022 at 14:04
"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...
December 03, 2022 at 09:39
I doubt it. Not-A cannot be A, but an entity can be fictional.
December 02, 2022 at 17:58
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...
December 02, 2022 at 17:52
In the sense that fictional is not necessarily contradictory to entity.
December 02, 2022 at 15:54
Not according to the SEP article Fictional Entities, which write: "While London and Napoleon are not fictional entities, some have thought that the Lo...
December 02, 2022 at 14:43
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 ...
December 02, 2022 at 09:27
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 ...
November 24, 2022 at 08:38
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 ...
November 23, 2022 at 14:36
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...
November 23, 2022 at 10:49
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...
November 22, 2022 at 16:24
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...
November 21, 2022 at 15:19
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...
November 21, 2022 at 10:39
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...
November 21, 2022 at 10:33
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...
November 20, 2022 at 18:03
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...
November 20, 2022 at 17:04
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 ...
November 20, 2022 at 13:30
Words objectify what they are referring to. "Morality" identifies morality as a thing, "mountain" identifies mountain as a thing. This is how language...
November 19, 2022 at 16:44
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"....
November 19, 2022 at 11:06
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...
November 18, 2022 at 13:44
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...
November 18, 2022 at 09:51
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...
November 17, 2022 at 17:49
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...
November 17, 2022 at 13:30
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 ...
November 17, 2022 at 12:57
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...
November 17, 2022 at 12:04
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...
November 17, 2022 at 10:56
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...
November 16, 2022 at 16:26
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...
November 16, 2022 at 14:51
It depends on how ineffable is defined The Britannica Dictionary defines ineffable as "too great, powerful, beautiful, etc., to be described or expres...
November 16, 2022 at 09:24
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 ...
November 16, 2022 at 09:19
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...
November 15, 2022 at 15:42
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...
November 15, 2022 at 11:13
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...
November 15, 2022 at 10:06
Definitions don't need to be observer independent. For example, the Cambridge Dictionary defines beauty as "the quality of being pleasing, especially ...
November 14, 2022 at 17:04
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,...
November 14, 2022 at 16:05
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...
November 14, 2022 at 13:07
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: ...
November 13, 2022 at 13:44
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November 06, 2022 at 17:39
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...
November 05, 2022 at 17:34
@"ucarr" @"Athena" The battle between facts and feelings. The relationship between facts and feelings There are various combinations: 1) I feel someth...
November 04, 2022 at 16:48
@"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...
November 02, 2022 at 17:50
It would be easier if you gave a link to the source, as premise one doesn't make any sense and premise two is ungrammatical.
October 30, 2022 at 11:00
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October 29, 2022 at 08:50
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...
October 28, 2022 at 19:56
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October 28, 2022 at 17:25
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...
October 28, 2022 at 13:04