I have no idea. That doesn't matter a bit. We cannot know everything. One ought know what sorts of things can be true/false and what makes them so...
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- Tue Nov 20, 2018 2:45 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
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- Tue Nov 20, 2018 2:42 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
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Re: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
You're conflating a true claim with truth. Truth is correspondence. Correspondence is what makes a claim true. A lack of correspondence is what makes a claim false. What is the mechanism for verifying correspondence? It seems to me that in the absence of such mechanism you can't assert the truth of...
- Tue Nov 20, 2018 2:40 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
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Verification requires knowing what it would take for the claim to be true(knowing what the claim means). And in the case where I don't know what the claim means because I don't understand your taxonomy the experiment provides me with the meaning. Because testing/falsification criteria do exactly th...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 10:46 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
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There is no need to use the term "absolute" here. New information discovered in the future cannot prove a true claim to be erroneous. If it is later discovered to be false, then it was never true to begin with. So by your definition truth is unfalsifiable. That's called a tautology. If I ...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 10:40 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
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Re: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
Entirely possible. I don't claim to understand the inner of my brain/mind. And yet you've offered an explanation of that on several occasions... One that you appease you? Probably not. You seem too inflexible a thinker to take it at face value. People who ask me merely want to learn my methods. Bec...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 10:36 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
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Re: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
There is no need to use the term "absolute" here. New information discovered in the future cannot prove a true claim to be erroneous. If it is later discovered to be false, then it was never true to begin with. So by your definition truth is unfalsifiable. That's called a tautology. If I ...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 10:34 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
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Re: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
You said "test/falsify" and you offered a link to verification... there is a significant difference between what it takes to verify a claim and what it takes to falsify a claim. True claims can be verified but not falsified. Any verification is only as good as the test contrived therefore...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 10:15 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
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I can't do that in general. i can only do it in context of problem solving. Perhaps it is because you're nothing more than a quite clever program yourself, one that is based upon an inadequate criterion for meaning. Entirely possible. I don't claim to understand the inner of my brain/mind. And yet ...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 10:13 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
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Re: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
You really mean "falsify" do you not? Let me save you the trouble. You cannot falsify a true claim. I said "falsify". That would only be the case if your conception of "truth" is absolute. Absolute truth is a rather foreign notion to scientists. Given that information ...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 10:10 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
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Re: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
You really mean "falsify" do you not? Let me save you the trouble. You cannot falsify a true claim. I said "falsify". That would only be the case if your conception of "truth" is absolute. Absolute truth is a rather foreign notion to scientists. Given that information ...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 10:08 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
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The process of bracketing a.k.a phenomenological reduction. I asked you to explain it for me. I can't do that in general. i can only do it in context of problem solving. Perhaps it is because you're nothing more than a quite clever program yourself, one that is based upon an inadequate criterion fo...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 9:58 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
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I mean, how about one that determined how to respond by virtue of knowing what it would take for my claims to be true/false? You want ME to decide if YOUR proposition are decidable? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidability_(logic) Come now. Be serious. You need to put forth suggestions on how to ...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 9:47 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
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Somewhat - yeah. I never sought coming to terms with it. I just tripped over my inability to express my mental process when people asked me about it. And they ask me a lot. So I figured I ought to try and make it communicable. Phenomenology helped me make it communicable. I was (am?) a doer, not a ...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 9:46 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
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The algorithm you're employing as a means to respond to what I've written is quite loose. How precise a model do you want? Well, one that provides a response based upon more than just synonyms of some words I've used words would be nice. I mean, how about one that determined how to respond by virtu...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 9:37 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
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:roll: :roll: :roll: The point is I practiced the mental process for 15 years and I tried to (and failed to) narrate it on a number of occasions. Phenomenology gave me the language to call it 'phenomenology' and it helped me narrate it. DOING Phenomenology happened before acquiring the language to ...