Word are power. What defines the words power though?
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It is hard to pinpoint the remarkabilty, ability, strength and value of the very bricks of language. words. Yet there is no stable for what actually defines their value. The book defines which law is to be put in use, but no book actually DEFINES the DEFINITION of words. (dictionaries define the most common value of a word. not THE value) So I ask you. What tells us this is this, and that is that. Why can't I point at a window and say that is cloud (notice no "a"), WHAT is stopping me?
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| Why can't I point at a window and say that is cloud (notice no "a"), WHAT is stopping me? |
Nothing is ;)
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| But I would have thought that the cellar you live in had no windows. Good for you |
What? What has convinced you I (origin of your metaphor)
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What is stopping you is a grammar.
Words are inherently very useless. It's the context in which we use them in that gives them some meaning. We can construct more meaningful and powerful things by using words if we also construct a grammar. We can then use those words and a grammar to construct a language. A language is how we are communicating right now. A language must follow certain rules (grammars) and have certain words (symbols of terminals and non-terminals).
Here are some interesting reads about Noam Chomsky's classification of grammars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/automata_theory/chomsky_classification_of_grammars.htm
Words are inherently very useless. It's the context in which we use them in that gives them some meaning. We can construct more meaningful and powerful things by using words if we also construct a grammar. We can then use those words and a grammar to construct a language. A language is how we are communicating right now. A language must follow certain rules (grammars) and have certain words (symbols of terminals and non-terminals).
Here are some interesting reads about Noam Chomsky's classification of grammars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/automata_theory/chomsky_classification_of_grammars.htm
| Why can't I point at a window and say that is cloud (notice no "a"), WHAT is stopping me? |
Nothing is stopping you, except others who hear you babble won't know what you mean and likely think you are insane.
There's a lot of things to look at here. If you consider that objects like a window have physical shapes and textures, you can realize that even blind people can learn what specific objects are. The dictionary builds on the foundation of our common understanding because language simply isn't powerful enough to convey things such that we could understand without background information.
For example, color doesn't exist outside of our minds. Simply, there are different frequencies of light, but it is up to our brains entirely to pick a color for those different light waves. Unlike a window, you CANNOT describe a color so well that a blind person could visualize a color for the first time.
Is my red the same as your red? :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQsOFQju08
For example, color doesn't exist outside of our minds. Simply, there are different frequencies of light, but it is up to our brains entirely to pick a color for those different light waves. Unlike a window, you CANNOT describe a color so well that a blind person could visualize a color for the first time.
Is my red the same as your red? :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQsOFQju08
| Why can't I point at a window and say that is cloud (notice no "a"), WHAT is stopping me? |
Do you want people to think you are brain damaged?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia
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Do you want people to think you are brain damaged? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia |
It was just a thought experiment
| There's a lot of things to look at here. If you consider that objects like a window have physical shapes and textures, you can realize that even blind people can learn what specific objects are. The dictionary builds on the foundation of our common understanding because language simply isn't powerful enough to convey things such that we could understand without background information. |
Sophisticated summary you have here, but what do you think about the question:
| Why can't I point at a window and say that is cloud (notice no "a"), WHAT is stopping me? |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQsOFQju08 |
I literally had a Rubik's cube in my hand
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| It was just a thought experiment |
And my response was a hypothetical answer.
Ask a question, don't be surprised if you get an answer you didn't expect to hear.
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