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Post by ShadowSouL: Padawan of Yoda on Oct 24, 2022 0:31:58 GMT
How do we know that any meaning that we assign to language really has that meaning?
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Post by gw on Oct 24, 2022 1:28:09 GMT
I don't have much philosophical perspective on how we'd ascribe meaning to language. After all, we need language to ascribe meaning to itself. I suppose we might be able to figure it out by rejection. Like the phrase 'head over heels' can't have an accurate meaning the way it's used because it's ordinary for our head to be over our heels and the phrasee should be 'heels over head'. The only other thought that comes to mind is that language has a grammatical order that affects how one thinks about a subject. Do adjectives come before or after the noun, for example? I suspect that however one communicates, one has to decide which part of the idea to convey first.
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Post by Nora on Oct 24, 2022 19:39:48 GMT
How do we know that any meaning that we assign to language really has that meaning? we dont for sure. we hope for the best. its a social contract  |
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Post by ShadowSouL: Padawan of Yoda on Nov 7, 2022 6:46:31 GMT
I don't have much philosophical perspective on how we'd ascribe meaning to language. After all, we need language to ascribe meaning to itself. I suppose we might be able to figure it out by rejection. Like the phrase 'head over heels' can't have an accurate meaning the way it's used because it's ordinary for our head to be over our heels and the phrasee should be 'heels over head'. The only other thought that comes to mind is that language has a grammatical order that affects how one thinks about a subject. Do adjectives come before or after the noun, for example? I suspect that however one communicates, one has to decide which part of the idea to convey first. But we could have called the head heels and the heels head, going all the way back to the origins of language.
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Post by ShadowSouL: Padawan of Yoda on Nov 7, 2022 6:46:58 GMT
How do we know that any meaning that we assign to language really has that meaning? we dont for sure. we hope for the best. its a social contract That's quite the positive outlook!
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Post by Nora on Nov 7, 2022 12:54:12 GMT
we dont for sure. we hope for the best. its a social contract That's quite the positive outlook! the older i get the more i am aware of people often misunderstanding others simply because each party interprets certain words differently. its fascinating really that we all Somehow even get Somewhat along 🤣 |
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Post by Catman on Nov 7, 2022 16:45:56 GMT
Catman knows the answer to this one!
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