On 4/2/2017 6:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Words are used to make definition, but the definition are semantical, or axiomatical, and point usually on thing which are not number. The words "consciousness" or "trith", as word, are easy to define (they are just special sequence of letters taken in some finite alphabet". When we say that consciousness, truth, or god, are not definable, we mean that the concept cannot be defined by any sequence of letters.
Exactly. You can define words like "chair" as referring to chairs, things which have certain forms and functions you can point to. You can only define "consciousness" ostensively by appealing to other people's use of words like "aware", "feel", "recall", "perceive",..and their actions.
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