Can you hear me? Do you understand what it is that I'm trying to say? Can you match your operational model of cognition and knowledge against mine through the medium of writing semiotic symbols in chains that you read with your eyes and pattern match against your faculties? When I use the word 'bollocks' in given contexts, can you tell if I'm calling nonsense or talking about anatomy?
It all depends. We think most humans have a modicum of modelling available to them in order to make communication possible, and this seems to be true in some way. However, more than two thousand years of philosophy begs to differ. And here we are.
It all depends. We think most humans have a modicum of modelling available to them in order to make communication possible, and this seems to be true in some way. However, more than two thousand years of philosophy begs to differ. And here we are.
Time to read some Wittgenstein.
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