Idolater
"Matthew 16:18-19" Dispensationalist (Catholic) χρ
‘Ceteris paribus,’ we all have the same thoughts and feelings.
Language is our window to the world. Without language we’re not even observing the world, we are instead of looking through a window, we are looking at a blank wall that completely hides the world from us.
The lack of language in the animals means that they are looking at a blank wall, compared with us. Without language, they have no consciousness of the world. With language, we have a window through the wall, we can see outside, we can see the world.
Language is not a perfectly clear pane of glass. There is a dimness to the glass. While this is in effect a defect in the glass, it is inescapable that the dimness is there, it is inherent to the glass. Your choice is between this dim window to the world, and a blank wall that hides the world completely, so the choice is obvious that we’ll take the window, even though it obscures our view of the world, to the blank wall.
Fortunately, it is not difficult to calibrate our view through the window, to account for and correct the dimness that causes our view of the world to be somewhat distorted. The distortion is particularly that through the window to the world, we appear to be determined, and to not possess free will.
Language is the first thing we must address when we go about describing the world that we see through the dim glass of language. We must say something about the glass itself, and since we need language to do that, the first thing that we say, establishes language, it is the foundation, the bedrock, of language.
Once you use language, you have demonstrated that language exists. You have demonstrated it, and the demonstration itself is the definition of language.
Language is real. There. There’s the foundation of language, which is a logical transformation of the real foundation of language which is just, Language. The word ‘language’ itself demonstrates its own existence and objective reality and physical manifestation in the real world. We do not merely state that the window exists, but we establish that we have a tool to state that the window exists, and that tool is the window itself.
Because the animals see the world through a blank wall, which is the same as saying that they can’t see the world at all, they also are therefore truly determined, automatic, not free creatures. They because they cannot see the world, behave entirely according to reflexes and hormones and stimulus and such. They do not possess nor demonstrate free will, and it is because they cannot be free, because they cannot see, because they do not have the window of language in the wall, through which to see the world.
And the dim window obscures our view of the world, such that it appears through this dim glass that we are not free either, and in a way, people who do not acknowledge that we are free, are ignoring the inherent dimness in the window. The dimness makes it look like we are not free.
There are however, things that people do, that defy the appearance of determinism, even when seen through the dimness of the glass. These things, when put into language skillfully, demand ever more complicated explanations as to why it appears to be that humans Do possess free will, if we insist on believing and accepting that we are Not free.
If we instead believe that we are free, we not only address specifically the dimness, we also correct the distortion, and we also, obviate the need for overly complicated explanations for why we do sometimes appear to be free, and not mechanically or even logically determined. These occurrences instead of being problematic, are the definitive proof that free will is real, and they also demonstrate what “free will” means, through ostensive definition.
The foundation of philosophy is Language. The signifier and the signified.
What do those symbols mean, “Language?”
We don’t need to express the above query In /With language, mind you, we only have to be curious. We need to just wonder, question, ponder. The answer to our curiosity is the same as what prompted our curiosity: Language.
This is language. The word language IS language.
And that proposition, produces for us the foundation of logic. Language is language. That pattern, where there’s a word, and a copula, and the same homograph again, is the foundation or bedrock of logic. It’s a tautology. Logic is valid inference, and what does valid inference mean? We show or demonstrate or illustrate it, by repeating “Language is language.” To be logical, to be a valid inference, whatever it is that we’re investigating must be in that same form or pattern or even trope or parable or equation, as “Language is language.” If you want to substitute other symbols for ‘language’ you can instead say “W is W.” You can substitute a symbol for the copula, so long as it’s different from W. WOW, for example. Anything that is an expression, no matter how complicated, of ‘WOW’ is logical.
'Ceteris paribus,' we all have the same thoughts and feelings.
Language is our window to the world. Without language we’re not even observing the world, we are instead of looking through a window, we are looking at a blank wall that completely hides the world from us.
The lack of language in the animals means that they are looking at a blank wall, compared with us. Without language, they have no consciousness of the world. With language, we have a window through the wall, we can see outside, we can see the world.
Language is not a perfectly clear pane of glass. There is a dimness to the glass. While this is in effect a defect in the glass, it is inescapable that the dimness is there, it is inherent to the glass. Your choice is between this dim window to the world, and a blank wall that hides the world completely, so the choice is obvious that we’ll take the window, even though it obscures our view of the world, to the blank wall.
Fortunately, it is not difficult to calibrate our view through the window, to account for and correct the dimness that causes our view of the world to be somewhat distorted. The distortion is particularly that through the window to the world, we appear to be determined, and to not possess free will.
Language is the first thing we must address when we go about describing the world that we see through the dim glass of language. We must say something about the glass itself, and since we need language to do that, the first thing that we say, establishes language, it is the foundation, the bedrock, of language.
Once you use language, you have demonstrated that language exists. You have demonstrated it, and the demonstration itself is the definition of language.
Language is real. There. There’s the foundation of language, which is a logical transformation of the real foundation of language which is just, Language. The word ‘language’ itself demonstrates its own existence and objective reality and physical manifestation in the real world. We do not merely state that the window exists, but we establish that we have a tool to state that the window exists, and that tool is the window itself.
Because the animals see the world through a blank wall, which is the same as saying that they can’t see the world at all, they also are therefore truly determined, automatic, not free creatures. They because they cannot see the world, behave entirely according to reflexes and hormones and stimulus and such. They do not possess nor demonstrate free will, and it is because they cannot be free, because they cannot see, because they do not have the window of language in the wall, through which to see the world.
And the dim window obscures our view of the world, such that it appears through this dim glass that we are not free either, and in a way, people who do not acknowledge that we are free, are ignoring the inherent dimness in the window. The dimness makes it look like we are not free.
There are however, things that people do, that defy the appearance of determinism, even when seen through the dimness of the glass. These things, when put into language skillfully, demand ever more complicated explanations as to why it appears to be that humans Do possess free will, if we insist on believing and accepting that we are Not free.
If we instead believe that we are free, we not only address specifically the dimness, we also correct the distortion, and we also, obviate the need for overly complicated explanations for why we do sometimes appear to be free, and not mechanically or even logically determined. These occurrences instead of being problematic, are the definitive proof that free will is real, and they also demonstrate what “free will” means, through ostensive definition.
The foundation of philosophy is Language. The signifier and the signified.
What do those symbols mean, “Language?”
We don’t need to express the above query In /With language, mind you, we only have to be curious. We need to just wonder, question, ponder. The answer to our curiosity is the same as what prompted our curiosity: Language.
This is language. The word language IS language.
And that proposition, produces for us the foundation of logic. Language is language. That pattern, where there’s a word, and a copula, and the same homograph again, is the foundation or bedrock of logic. It’s a tautology. Logic is valid inference, and what does valid inference mean? We show or demonstrate or illustrate it, by repeating “Language is language.” To be logical, to be a valid inference, whatever it is that we’re investigating must be in that same form or pattern or even trope or parable or equation, as “Language is language.” If you want to substitute other symbols for ‘language’ you can instead say “W is W.” You can substitute a symbol for the copula, so long as it’s different from W. WOW, for example. Anything that is an expression, no matter how complicated, of ‘WOW’ is logical.
'Ceteris paribus,' we all have the same thoughts and feelings.