If you limit language to merely the verbalized form---then you miss the point. Knowledge is a universal concept IT is there. How you acquire and communicate it---is a different matter. Non verbalized symbols and signs are as critical as verbalized symbols.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Sekhar <[email protected]> wrote: > Let us examine knowledge and its functions as well as its capacities > and dimensions. Knowledge requires a platform to operate, which called > language. As a beginning, will it not be easy to explore what we speak > and write? How do we acquire linguistic skills? Is not the word an > abstract entity all by itself? Finally, are we using the word or used > by it? > To think of thinking is the need of the day, but do we know what > thinking is or do away by the process itself? Word is a window to its > knowledge and feelings generated. The teacher and taught, without two > elements there is neither education nor the world we visualize. The > same gap is from word to real, since the word apple is not real, so > the gap is the problem. To solve this problem are we not creating > innumerable problems? Simply we say that the problem lies in ones own > perception, alternatively the world we experience. > Do we aware of the functioning of linguistic patterns or just carried > away by presumptions and assumptions, which are part of linguistic > ideology? It is surprising to note that all philosophical statements > are logical derivations. Logic based on two, one is constant and the > other is variable. Out of these we derive, the third, which is a name, > imposed on real. Name – its image – feeling – idea, the steps we call > functioning of language. Linguistic operation is three dimensional in > its volume, directional, and dynamic in its character. Is it not the > whole of the intellect, which we carry all the time with different > names, such as mind, heart, consciousness, inner world etc? > Knowledge is the outcome of interactive principle which is result > oriented in its conceptual form. Therefore, concept drives humans to > its result. However voluminous in its stature and predictive in its > character still it is partial and indirect by its nature. The > relational arrangement between nouns – verb – tense is the relational > attitude between subject and object. This relation may be rational or > irrational. Opposites ingrained in language, so pessimism verses > optimism, order – disorder, theism – atheism, and so on rooted in > language but not anywhere in nature. Essentially languages constructed > for memorizing past events and experiences so to refine them in > present. Even the refined state of consciousness is inadequate to meet > the present. Therefore, there is continuous strife for better > knowledge in the world in which we live. By its very inception, > knowledge is divisive phenomena hence can offer division only. It is > the witness to its own activity, which is the reason of its expansion. > These are the grounding factors for conceivable reality and > experience. Memory is past and functioning in present and projects the > future project. > It is clear that the trio KNOWER – KNOWN – KNOWLEDGE is all past and > time bound. If there is no transformation to intelligence, this > knowledge remains a mere tin. Formulas require explanation. > Explanation may be in the shape of a song, dance, and drama but there > is every chance of deriving mythical ideology, so to save from this > kind of diversions, there is philosophical enquiry. Enquiry is full of > logic, which is based on mathematics, when not used in conjunction of > subject, express disastrous and conflicting statement > Knowledge is a cluster of statements. Essence of accumulated knowledge > is called as intuition, which instigate, HOW? Word as is an image and > its produced image is mounted upon primary image. Two lifeless images > are interacting because of sound. > The whole of thought process depends on calculation. Movement of > thought is calculation, but only factual but not real. Natural > intelligence is covered by accrued intellect like fire is covered by > smoke, mirror is covered by dust, but smoke is taken for granted as > fire. Since there is no clear distinction between factuality and > reality, all suffocated ideas are expressed as real. Ignorance verses > intelligence, these two opposites are responsible for tons of > literature. Phenomenal approach to language may solve problems since > it deals with what we see, hear, feel etc in contrast to what may be > real and true about the world we feel and live. > We have to bear in mind that we are exploring virtual world, otherwise > known as linguistic knowledge, which has a fraction of relation with > the real. This relation is only with image, which we get out of sound. > Sound and touch are the basic ingredients to formulate a picture. Our > so-called mind is nothing but the analysis of these pictures. Here we > are not going to propose any new idea or concept but investigating the > gifted knowledge from our ancestors and trying to find out its > relative strength, which we inherit as a language. So let us begin > with our own mother tongue, which we learn in the form of a song, > story, an epic, or sayings, which stand as a translator throughout the > rest of our lives. We call this translator as mind, heart, etc. We > live in a pluralistic world which in fact is not real but a virtual > one, which is also called MAYA (Sanskrit). > Belief plays a vital role in our lives, without which, we cannot even > imagine. Thus, derived imagination is the stepping-stone for entire > human activity. Language is not as simple as it appears to be. > Arranged relation between sound and symbol and their picture is > thought and its provocation, now the question is whether it would be > possible to examine this invisible provocation? If with what? > Relation with a mirror is the same with a language. Whatever formulae, > theories, explanations, and concepts thus derived are only limited to > those images which help our movement both inside and outside. > Habituated to live in a conceptual environment, without which we feel > homeless. Yet we talk of mukthi, moksha, freedom etc. This we may call > self-deception. Education through a language advocated since eons. > Veda (Sanskrit) means to know and this functions over two, one is > (memory) smrithi and the other is sruthi (order of sound) but both are > invisible. Therefore, there are different names for the outcome of > combinations and permutations. Unfortunately, we hang on to these > names. All invisible feelings are generated in-between two images, one > is of self and the other is of the object, and the activity continues > forever until there is true enquiry. Then only knowledge acquired can > function in a sane order. > KUMARILA BHATTU (Vedic exponent) said that words convey their own > meanings, not related to something else. Descriptive sentences are > significant. Sentence meaning as composed of separate word meanings > held together in a relational structure. Word meaning formed is the > simplest unit of sense. Persons thus learn the meaning of words by > seeing others talking as well as from advice of elders. > MANDAN MISRA said that phenomenal distinctions are unreal and > appearance of immutable word essence. > K LANGER said that language is only means of articulating thought. > Essential act of thought is symbolization. World of humans made of > symbol and its meaning. > PRABHAKARA said that all knowledge is verbal which is inferential in > its character. > HUXLEY said that we sin by attributing concrete significance to > meaningless pseudo knowledge as real understanding. We are amphibians > living simultaneously in the world of experience and the world of > notions. > SANKHYA PHILOSOPHY explains that the language is the base of > intellectual games we play with ourselves. It is responsible for the > division of SEER – SEEN which is an egocentric ideology. This virtual > reality is the cause and its effect of illusion. > PATANJALI YOGA describes that two different feelings like pain and > pleasure never occur simultaneously. Inference we derive out of a > paragraph is only feeling. > POORVA MEEMAMSA said every symbol is a picture and its experience is > SEER. Entire linguistic pattern is only indicative. So the index and > indicated are images. Combinations of several meanings of words are > the meaning of a paragraph. > GOUDAPADA (mandookya karikalu) explained that cause and its effect are > interdependent and prone to change. > SANKARA Acharya said that group of symbols is a word and expression of > these words is creation. However, mature logical ideology may be still > it is partial and different from the real. Negation of all > psychological impressions is to be wise. > PANINI (Creator of Sanskrit grammar) warned to check phonetics to > understand the cause of difference in time. Sound is traveling in the > human body in the shape of symbol. Totality of A to Z is self and its > practices. > JIDDU KRISHNA MURTHY said that word is not the real thing. > NAGARJUNA said that the experience and reason do not give us genuine > knowledge. > RAMANUJA said that we could not prove the existence of an object > without attributing, even in case of self-consciousness and in the > object of intuition. > WITTGENSTIEN Main source of our failure to understand is that we do > not command a clear view of the use of our words. > VIDYARANYA (panchadasi) Because of verbal sounds we get pictures of > existing objects and a doubt. This happens even when there is no > object. > What we are destroying is the house of cards and clearing the ground > on which they stand. Philosophy does not result in propositions, but > rather in clarifying them. The end of language is the end of human > world. > sekhar > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Epistemology" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<epistemology%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en. > > -- nubiaafrika.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
