19 JAN 2012 by ideonexus

 Humans Depend on Language

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
Folksonomies: communication language
Folksonomies: communication language
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Quoting Niels Bohr on the complications of communication.

19 JAN 2012 by ideonexus

 The Opposite of a Deep Truth is Also a Deep Truth

The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.
Folksonomies: philosophy truth
Folksonomies: philosophy truth
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Quote from Niels Bohr.