[lit-ideas] Re: Try a Logic Problem
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 06:47:38 -0700 (PDT)
--- Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> However, the world does not separate out, does not
> say, '? ? ?' as
> being a state of affairs or an arrangement of
> things. That is what we
> do when we say 'This is called three dots in a row'
> and point
> accordingly. So when we see '? ? ?' it is that
> "arrangement of things
> in the world" along with the English sentence 'This
> is three dots in a
> row' that makes it possible to say, "It is not true
> that there are four
> dots in a row". A straightforward solution that
> drops out unnecessary
> causes like that mythological 'non-linguistic
> entity'.
*Chair is no doubt a linguistic entity. To make the
statement: "I'm sitting on a chair." I need to have
the concept of chair, to know the English word for
chair etc. Yet if the linguistic concept of chair were
all I were sitting on, the statement wouldn't be true
because I would find myself on the floor. Perhaps that
could help to convey why we cannot reduce everything
to language and why need some non-linguistic entities
or realities.
O.K.
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