Isn’t that unique composition of language? If you consider descriptions of the world to be something like a linear combination of words (or the impression they map to in your mind), then language can be said to span/cover some intrepretation of experiences.
I agree with you, and linguistic thinking is certainly the more reductive one.
But aren’t they both mistaken? As soon as anything is put into words, or encoded in logic for that matter, it has already been severely reduced and lost its connection to reality.
Difficult questions are basically syntax errors, loaded questions, self-contradicting statements, or statements with mistaken assumptions baked into them. But more importantly, I don’t think that even correct language has much in common with reality. We have no reasons to assume that the words we’ve come up with have the expressive power needed to align with reality, and it might be the case that no such words can’t exist.
You might be arguing that the meaning or concept behind a word is valid, and that manipulating these underlying things can allow us to understand the world. I suppose that this understanding of the world is correct enough to be useful, but I doubt that there’s any formal equivalence between even our intuitions and “reality”. As I see it, “getting out of the car” allows one to live a genuine human life, but it still doesn’t allow one to move outside the scope of human.
Isn’t that unique composition of language? If you consider descriptions of the world to be something like a linear combination of words (or the impression they map to in your mind), then language can be said to span/cover some intrepretation of experiences.
I agree with you, and linguistic thinking is certainly the more reductive one.
But aren’t they both mistaken? As soon as anything is put into words, or encoded in logic for that matter, it has already been severely reduced and lost its connection to reality.
Difficult questions are basically syntax errors, loaded questions, self-contradicting statements, or statements with mistaken assumptions baked into them. But more importantly, I don’t think that even correct language has much in common with reality. We have no reasons to assume that the words we’ve come up with have the expressive power needed to align with reality, and it might be the case that no such words can’t exist.
You might be arguing that the meaning or concept behind a word is valid, and that manipulating these underlying things can allow us to understand the world. I suppose that this understanding of the world is correct enough to be useful, but I doubt that there’s any formal equivalence between even our intuitions and “reality”. As I see it, “getting out of the car” allows one to live a genuine human life, but it still doesn’t allow one to move outside the scope of human.