I believe that language is for communicating the shared part of experience, or sometimes for creating the illusion of shared experience. Whatever is unique about a person’s experience is going to get lost if you try to communicate it through language.
Ok, that’s maybe a little too harsh-sounding. I think some people are relatively similar to each other, so that language can resonate rfairly well between them.
Still, I believe in tacit knowledge. And even if a skillful person can find words for some of it—turn the bike wheel towards the direction you’re falling is sound advice, but how would you convey exactly what it’s like to be you riding a bike on a particular day, or what it’s like to know how to ride a bike before you have words for it?
I believe that language is for communicating the shared part of experience, or sometimes for creating the illusion of shared experience. Whatever is unique about a person’s experience is going to get lost if you try to communicate it through language.
Ok, that’s maybe a little too harsh-sounding. I think some people are relatively similar to each other, so that language can resonate rfairly well between them.
Still, I believe in tacit knowledge. And even if a skillful person can find words for some of it—turn the bike wheel towards the direction you’re falling is sound advice, but how would you convey exactly what it’s like to be you riding a bike on a particular day, or what it’s like to know how to ride a bike before you have words for it?