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Meta-Physical Language - Does It Have Meaning? The role of metaphysical
language in the study of philosophy and classical logic ...
... It also depends on language because some languages ... task [memory test]---either to
physical qualities or ... or support the hypothesis Metamemory: (Meta refers to ...
... essentializing meta-narratives and meta-theories of ... The cognitive-physical process
of generating thought ... Denzer writes, "language does not permit speakers or ...
... Criticism from the Viewpoints of Language and Experience ... of "General Will" where
the meta-individual principle ... in the movement of physical objects: «Positive ...
... tariquas will co-ordinate this with physical postures and ... the divine, the empirical
and the meta-empirical. ... it is through the description in language that the ...
Submitted by domino2 on April 28, 2007
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The role of metaphysical language in the study of philosophy and classical logic brings up some interesting questions. Is there a reality beyond the physical, beyond that which can be known to man by his senses and tools of measurement? Can an idea, a concept, or a belief inexpressible in human language have any real meaning? How can I discuss, argue, or philosophize about intuitive, subjective experiences that have no agreed-upon symbolic references? These are questions that logicians and philosophers have debated for centuries. Since the days of Aristotle, the study of metaphysics has been debated and logicians have struggled to bridge the mysteries between those facts that we know by our senses and the metaphysical, from the Greek term meta ta physika, "after the things of nature." Given that Aristotle himself pioneered the study of metaphysics and despite attempts by logicians and philosophers to arrive at a clear and precise definition of the structure of reality, I believe metaphysical language does have meaning and is responsible for the religious and spiritual quests throughout the centuries and continuing today.
In the early 20th Century, Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote in his Tractatus Logico-Philosphicus, "the world is all that is the case" and "the sum-total of reality is the world." In these two succinct, beautiful, and compelling proposals, he attempted to unify the argument that "all that is known" can be deduced by logic as being "all that is." Using this argument, there is no room in logic for that which is "not known" by the senses, that which is unseen, unmeasured, and unable to be communicated by language. I believe this is a flaw in Wittgenstein's theory due in part to the limitations of scientific discovery at the time and by Wittgenstein's and his mentor Bertrand Russell's intellectual investment in their theory of "logical atomism." Based upon the rate of scientific breakthroughs in the last hundred and fifty years or so, there...
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