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A representation of a dog or cat in your mind is a data structure of a kind. Embeddings are about the names, not the named. How about this? Is a drop of water

• goatlover 8y ago
  > A representation of a dog or cat in your mind is a data structure of a kind. Embeddings are about the names, not the named. The later Wittgenstein's philosophy was about how meaning is language usage. As such, it was not interested in the names, which are arbitrary rules of the language game. In ordinary speech, talk of dog and cats is not about data structures or representations. That sort of talk takes place in a specialized language game like computer or cognitive science. As such, it's an abuse of language to reify the usage in one language game for all language games, as if a word had a universal meaning independent of the game.