[Wittrs] [quickphilosophy] Re: An Anscombe Error Regarding Negation?
- From: "iro3isdx" <xznwrjnk-evca@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: quickphilosophy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:52:36 -0000
--- In quickphilosophy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin N Brampton
<martin.lists@...> wrote:
> responding to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quickphilosophy/message/86
> Martin:
> That provokes some other interesting (to me anyway) thoughts. Could
> you have a "pictorial" language even if you were a mindless
> robot? After all, we can always behave mindlessly, or build mindless
> robots to do it for us and save us the trouble. But would it solve
> anything?
In effect, NASA does use something like a picture-theory language for
sending back reports from unmanned space missions. And they do seem to
solve something.
Let me expand a bit on my earlier comments. As you said, a picture
theory seems to imply that there is an isomorphism between linguistic
expression and the world. And this would seem to imply a fixed
isomorphism. It seems to me that the mind engages in inventing new
isomorphisms. There is perhaps some sense in the idea that language is
a composite of many parts, with different isomorphisms for each part,
and that we make up suitable isomorphisms as we go along.
Regards,
Neil
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