Sublime

Meaning Systems

• 💡 Wittgenstein demonstrated that an evidentiary understanding of reality isn't enough.


• 💡 People create meaning systems with their communities.


• 💡 These meaning systems explain experiential reality.

Gödel’s own theorems were a case in point:

the language of the unconscious is not verbal. It’s like the language of dreams.

Who knows what’s happening in someone else’s head? He cannot with any confidence say what’s happening in his own head.

Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom. The illusion of separation of subject from object is best removed by the elimination of physical activity, mental activity and emotional activity.

As Ludwig Wittgenstein said in Philosophical Investigations, “philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”

There is a philosophy whose basic tenet is that those are the same. It is called behaviourism – which is instrumentalism applied to psychology. In other words, it is the doctrine that psychology can only, or should only, be the science of behaviour, not of minds;

Using modern terminology, we may say: Ideas of unperceived things or occurrences can always be defined in terms of perceived things or occurrences, and therefore, by substituting the definition for the term defined, we can always state what we know empirically without introducing any unperceived things or occurrences. As regards our present