Language and the World

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  1. Would you have a linguistic system, IF you are the only person on earth?

  2. Language describes experience, does not create (it is my celebrated revelation)

The above means this, why bother read about things if you want to experience it. words are constantly trying to describe things. why not go and experience it yourself? do you expect experience to be created (not described) by words??

Experience preceeds language. so stop talking, go outside and enjoy the sun.

What a simple philosophy. Yet it took me years to figure something billions of others have figured out way before me. Philosophers are basically people who are confused by language and also by psychology. They are most human, yet they try to unhealthly deny it.

I thank the Holy Spirit for giving me such wisdom. May our Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour bestow upon the same. PoR makes the sign of the cross and prays one last time for the congregation of unrepenting sinners.

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by all means PoR, stop posting ever again. The rest of us will carry on learning things that cannot be gleaned from staring at the sky and speculating.

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Using language to try to persuade people to not use language? What a fruitless argument…

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oreso

I have already prophesised that the time is coming I will no longer be with you.

someoneisatthedoor

Incorrect, if you understand what I have said. All I am saying is that stop talking and do something.

W.J. Wilczek

a baby can not speak, can it recognise a sun? Do English and German speakers recognise a different sun since they speak a different language?

This is true, because we think because there are other people around. so rational thought is developed to interact with people. but if there are no people around then the need to interact becomes limited to an extent that a huge amount of our vocabulary is not needed, if at all.

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POR
why would you log on so frequently to say how pointless philosophy was if you had no interest in it?

i’m going to post a good topic
why is life worth living?

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if I know no language. but I feel hungry when I see a piece of roast lamb, is what I see meaningless?

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Linguistically, yes…

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Not to hijack such a stimulating thread, but what are your opinions on Derida? Is language merely a representation of internally held images?

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W.J. Wilczek

please define langage… as you understand it in this context

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My God, I’m close to agreeing with PoR on something, was that a pig that just flew over…?

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Tab,

Why so surprised? Chance score allows for the possibility. Even the most dim-witted of your students occasionally screws up and get’s something right. Although in this case, it is definitely a screw up.

JT

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I believe, as I’m sure many of you do as well, that the experience of said “experience” precedes our efforts in explaining them in words.

linguistically qualifying our experiences is important as well, but that only comes after the experience, say, of looking at the sun.

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Regarding experience, to some extent you’re right. To some extent you’re wrong. Language is pretty deeply woven in to how your mind categorizes experience. The data of the world are pretty concrete, but the way in which the mind categorizes experience does seem to vary a little bit culture by culture language by language.

regarding pt number 1. No, but the question is silly and creates strawmen corollaries.

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POR, I am LOL.

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No…

Please define language as you understand it in this context…