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Quora on Memory and Words

Are words like memories and memories like words? It seems like an odd question. Sort of like asking ‘Are screenplays like entertainment and entertainment like screenplays?’. In a broad sense,...

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Ehh, How Do You Say…

The use of fillers in language are not limited to spoken communication. In American Sign Language, UM can be signed with open-8 held at chin, palm in, eyebrows down (similar to FAVORITE); or bilateral...

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Why can’t the world have a universal language? Part II

This is more of a comment on Marc Ettlinger‘s very good and thought provoking answer (I have reblogged it here and here). In particular I am interested in why pre-verbal expressions do not diverge in...

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Likelihood is the ultimate unlikelihood: Notes on sense as sole synthetic a...

In the contemporary Western model of the universe, mechanism is presumed to be the sole synthetic a priori. The general noumenal schema which can only be considered an eternal given and without which...

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Cross Modal Synesthetic Abstraction

From a worthwhile thread on Quora. “Below are two shapes. One of them is called Kiki and the other is called Bouba. Almost all respondents when asked say that the jagged one is kiki and the rounded one...

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If You See Wittgenstein on the Road… (you know what to do)

Me butting into a language based argument about free will: > I don’t see anything particularly contentious about Wittgenstein’s claim that the meaning of a word lies in how it is used. Can something...

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Wittgenstein, Physics, and Free Will

JE: My experience from talking to philosophers is that WIttgenstein’s view is certainly contentious. There seem to be two camps. There are those seduced by his writing who accept his account and there...

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Semiotics: What are the implications of the Saussurian sign...

Quora on Saussure. In my theory of meaning, Saussurian concepts of signifier and signified are a good start, but I propose a fundamental change. In his answer, Keith Allpress offers: here is where I...

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Consciousness can be mindless, but Mind cannot be unconscious

The mind is the cognitive range of consciousness. Consciousness includes many more aesthetic forms than just mind.

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I Think Therefore I Am?

The only thing that can be verified 100% to exist is your own consciousness (“I think, therefore I am”) does this effect/change your own beliefs in any way and how so? In a way it is true that our...

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