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Will a wink suffice? How about a photograph or a song? Edit: Language is fascinating, of course. However, I find the underlying mental layers that support it
by dwaltrip 8y ago
Will a wink suffice? How about a photograph or a song?
Edit: Language is fascinating, of course. However, I find the underlying mental layers that support it to be equally fascinating, if not more so.
- ThomPete 8y agoAre they claims about the world or just expressions?
- omginternets 8y agoWhat's the difference?
- ThomPete 8y agoA wink is just an expression we call a wink. We can then analyze what a wink it philosophically and make claims about it. So one is the experienced phenomena the other is inquiring about that phenoma.
- omginternets 8y agoCan't it be argued that the expression itself is a claim about the state of the world (= "the thing I just said was in jest").
- ThomPete 8y agoIt can but then you are back to subjective interpretation. You can wink, that wink can have meaning or it's just a wink or you got something in your eye. How do you determine what it is without having used language somehow to establish what a wink could mean? And that's just on the surface of the amgiguity.