We have a systematic ambiguity in our language. This ambiguity is inbuilt.
Think of how you would explain that you had made a mistake; 'it was an accident, a mistake, an error
etc etc...each explanation has to be seen in the context of its surrounding words, the ambiguity in our language is inbuilt and set in stone, this ambiguity deifies the vagaries of fashion, indeed as language of meaning expands the ambiguity increases.
Meaning does not lie in isolated splendour, meanings are not museum pieces to be viewed as entities
especially meanings in relation to mind or knowledge. Think of the expression 'I know this'
or I think I know this, or can this be known, or can anything be known, or what is to know,
It is in this way we might redefine, or reconceptualise the concept of knowing in the face of
the systematic ambiguity in language.
Think of how you would explain that you had made a mistake; 'it was an accident, a mistake, an error
etc etc...each explanation has to be seen in the context of its surrounding words, the ambiguity in our language is inbuilt and set in stone, this ambiguity deifies the vagaries of fashion, indeed as language of meaning expands the ambiguity increases.
Meaning does not lie in isolated splendour, meanings are not museum pieces to be viewed as entities
especially meanings in relation to mind or knowledge. Think of the expression 'I know this'
or I think I know this, or can this be known, or can anything be known, or what is to know,
It is in this way we might redefine, or reconceptualise the concept of knowing in the face of
the systematic ambiguity in language.
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