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Adding to it, there are things in life which are ineffable. This means they are (by definition), impossible to model or explain with words. Thus, these things w
by kiba 7y ago
Adding to it, there are things in life which are ineffable. This means they are (by definition), impossible to model or explain with words. Thus, these things will forever evade scientific scrutiny as science cannot deal with the ineffable.
What are ineffable things in life?
- CharlesColeman 7y agoQualia are one class.
- kiba 7y agoI am content with trying to grasp with it and never quite coming to an answer. These stuff can be answered with "I don't know" or "I don't know, but this is my best guess".
- wellpast 7y agoOr you could write narratives and koans and poems that explore it and assist in exploring it to its depths. Or -- better -- read the ancient and long-evolved, long-refined attempts at this. Why limit exploration to the narrow (and yet highly valuable at times) domain of Science.
- StanislavPetrov 7y agoIts fine to write fairy tales and works of fiction, but its quite another to do so in a attempt to explain objective reality. There is great value in being able to admit to yourself, and to others, that you "don't know" without any shame in doing so.
- dragonwriter 7y agoQualia are the only class of things which both can be experienced by an individual (and thus reasonably be said to exist, at least by that individual) but also be ineffable. If there are other ineffable things which exist, we cannot ever know about them.
- gus_massa 7y agoFrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia > Much of the debate over their importance hinges on the definition of the term, and various philosophers emphasize or deny the existence of certain features of qualia. Consequently, the nature and existence of various definitions of qualia remain controversial because they are not verifiable.
- ta1234567890 7y agoSome examples (for me): Love, death, having a kid. One way of understanding how we struggle with the ineffable: When parents raise a kid they usually want the kid to learn without suffering, without making the mistakes they made. However that's an impossible task. The kid will only truly understand what getting burnt (literally) means, when they get burnt. And no amount of explaining from the parents will ever convey the experience/meaning of getting burnt to their kid. Same for falling to the floor or falling in love. You can only truly "know" those things by experiencing them.