2006-07-15 11:02:49 · 9 answers · asked by Bogey 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
are facts and truth concept dependent?
2006-07-15 11:42:52 · update #1
if facts, truths, reality is mediated by concepts(thoughts), then our experiences are mediated by thoughts. Is it possible to have unmediated experiences that we can remember?
2006-07-15 13:26:58 · update #2
Language shapes reality can be seen as a true statement considering the sapir-whorf hypothesis and their research. However, there is much non-linguistic information that underlies language and is innate. For example, theory of mind is extremely pertinent to understanding language, I must understand at some very primative level when I am young that you have intentionality for me to understand that when you speak you are speaking about something - this is how I can line up an arbitrary symbol with some thing in the world.
2006-07-15 12:25:35 · answer #1 · answered by daseinpbc 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Never had a problem with subjective reality, that is language dictates reality (as soon as you can understand yes or no in any langauge, you are being instructed into that language/cultures concept of reality, and so, truths ) until I contemplated music as a possible language in the application of absolute pitch. There's a universal type of identity concept going here(which doesn't get into the possibility that numbers may or may not be real, thus arguing for or against 1=1) that not only rejects the idea of subjective truth, but further, places it outside of who Plato viewed would understand such concepts. In specific, it's been proven that many mentally challenged individuals also posess this type of knowledge. We're communicating , speaking, and defining reality and truths in different languages, but there appears to be a different logic (found in music) that appears to transcend languages/cultures. It appears to speak then, for a universal reality.
2006-07-15 19:13:15 · answer #2 · answered by diasporas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
facts, truth, reality aren't concept-dependent.
They ARE concepts.
Turn you head from the screen. Clear all words from your mind. That world is conceptual, whatever you see is not just a referent but a sign with a meaning, standing in relation to all kinds of other signs-- that they come into view AS Such is on the basis of differentiation from others. By virtue of difference. There is nothing outside the text.
You can take this understanding very far.
But power seems even more primary, and beyond the linguistic order commands reality into being. The act of sex, the use of punishment and force on the perimeter and discipline on the interior-- these aspects of the real may not be reducible to lingustic units in the symbolic order, but are prescriptive above and over it, constituting what appears as true.
2006-07-15 19:10:31 · answer #3 · answered by -.- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The experience of reality is subjective because we are all trapped inside these meat puppet bodies. The only way we have to communicate our experiences with one another is language. It is the means by which we describe our reality to others (and possibly to ourselves), and how we understand that certain common experiences help us define what is real and what is not. Therefore, language is the only resource we have when trying to figure out what reality is.
2006-07-15 18:24:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a reality. If it were not, language would be useless. It is a reality for so many reasons. It describes, defines, allows for expression and discovery. It is useful to think of language as not literally being reality, but rather a helpful tool of our reality. Although there is a dichotomy. It is a reality as much as it is a limitation. We need to be more lax on the creation of new words... I have a few :)
2006-07-15 18:08:38 · answer #5 · answered by The Wunder 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The claim "language is partly responsible for shaping our conceptions of reality" is true and has a lot of evidence to support it.
The claim "language is reality" is nonsense, propounded by lazy thinkers who mistake skepticism for profundity and the stunned incredulity of their opponents for an inability to refute their (the skeptics') position.
2006-07-15 19:04:04 · answer #6 · answered by Keither 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try to find william burrough's essay language is a virus. it blew my mind by convincingly arguing that language was encoded in us as a detonator for our own self-destruction as a species in case the creator/s decided to shut our experiment down in case of failure. umm...also, language is terribly deficient in trying to convey our complexities of thought, spirit and emotion. think of all the miscommunication between people. so, no, i don't think language is reality but i privately love it anyway. e.g. lots of good reading.
2006-07-16 01:21:34 · answer #7 · answered by Jonathon M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its cause of language we hav thought n cause we think we r
2006-07-15 18:07:52 · answer #8 · answered by Thewall 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is? then what is triumph the comic insult dog?
2006-07-15 18:07:36 · answer #9 · answered by broadway_boy7 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋