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That's what analytic philosophy has been trying to do for the past century. How well it has succeeded is debatable. Maybe instead of thinking of language as po
by goatlover 8y ago
That's what analytic philosophy has been trying to do for the past century. How well it has succeeded is debatable.
Maybe instead of thinking of language as poor, ambiguous version of logic, we should think of logic as a limited version of language.
Logic can't tell us what we should care about, how we should feel, what's worth pursing, what it means to exist as an animal with needs. We suffer, we desire, we wonder. Natural language captures that in a way that logic cannot.
- whatshisface 8y agoLanguage can tell us all of that but it doesn't seem to get any closer to letting us know which ones are true and which ones aren't.
- geoka9 8y agoBut that means you can't make valid conclusions relying on natural language alone. Before mathematicians get to play with abstract concepts, they rigorously define and prove them. Philosophers also want to make conclusions about abstract concepts but they refuse or are unable to pay that price.