[Wittrs] Re: [quickphilosophy] Re: An Anscombe Error Regarding Negation?
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- Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:10:22 +0100
Interesting. Is it fundamentally different, though, from the jpeg
"language" that is "spoken" by the average digital camera?
You're right to emphasize the plurality of linguistic possibilities.
But I have to wonder whether "the world" is really a candidate for an
isomorphic relationship with language.
> 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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