I like this post. I have thoughts along the same lines sometimes, and it makes me feel a bit overwhelmed and nihilistic, so then I go back to thinking about easier problems :-P
Is it even solvable? Definitely not always—there probably is no real-world referent for e.g. the human concept of a ghost.
Michael Graziano has another nice example: “pure whiteness”.
And then he argues argues that another example is, ummm, the whole idea of conscious experience, which would be a bit problematic for philosophy and ethics if true. See my Book Review: Rethinking Consciousness.
I like this post. I have thoughts along the same lines sometimes, and it makes me feel a bit overwhelmed and nihilistic, so then I go back to thinking about easier problems :-P
Michael Graziano has another nice example: “pure whiteness”.
And then he argues argues that another example is, ummm, the whole idea of conscious experience, which would be a bit problematic for philosophy and ethics if true. See my Book Review: Rethinking Consciousness.