[From Bjorn Simonsen (2007.02.07,10:35 EUST)]
I wish to put forward some thoughts about
words in connection with a statement from Bill the other day.
The statement was: “I see knowledge as consisting of
perceptions organized at many levels, controlled by systems at many levels,
with words being a rather ambiguous
way of describing these perceptions”.
I absolutely agree with the statement. But I
will talk about why words very often are experienced ambiguous. And here are
some thoughts that need further development.
The first words children experience and
remember are words pointing to configurations. Then they experience and
remember words pointing to sensations and later they experience and remember
words pointing to events and relationships.
When they are able to control sequences of
categories, they put words into sentences. Already at an age of Kindergarten
(4-5 years), they are able to control principles when they choose between
programs of action (undress outerwear before they go into the Kindergarten room).
Is this too early?
When children experience and remember words
they experience different configurations and events and students choose
different programs of categories and actions when they experience and remember
new words. E.g. students studying Physics will experience the word “epistemology”
different from students studying politics.
In this way words are metaphoric in them
selves. “Metaphors” don’t need to be different words.
I know too little about this compared with some
philosophers and linguist philologists and other experts, but I think many of
them are short of PCT/HPCT when they substantiate their meanings.
Here is a special thought. Words are
controlled at the category level. If I control the word “yellow” which is a
sensation percept, I describe how I describe the colour. If I control the experience
“in front of ” or “left” I use words to describe what I mean, very often they
use different words. I don’t argue that people therefore experience “in front
of” in different ways.
Do somebody have other thoughts about words
in HPCT?
Bjorn
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