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RE: Beyond Thinking and Language │Steemosophy 3/4 │
The word can never be the thing, it can describe the thing and be used as a mental place holder for recall of the thing, but, it is never the thing itself.
The thing I find very interesting about words/language is that even though we can all agree to a meaning, the actual meaning applied by the individual is completely unique.
In many ways, the words we use limit us from seeing more as they can lead us to generalizations and the belief that there is no more unique to see within the group we have labelled.
To me, this means that many stop well short of the boundaries as they cannot imagine what may be on the other side so they choose to avoid the uncertainty and accept the known and therefore limited view as truth.
Good post mate.
Thank you very much!
I completely agree with you.
Words attain meaning because we agree upon those meanings, but every individual is a subjectivity. No matter how similar two people are, they will never be exactly the same. They will always insert their own meanings.
We humans are so good at limiting our capacity to see the world and others for what they are.
Thank you for your great contribution to this post!!!