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by ttctciyf
1229 days ago
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Amusing dialog, and quite germane - Yorick claims to hold a cognitivist perspective (that meaning comes from 'handling symbols', see also [1]) while the final paragraph ironically expresses a healthy skepticism of cognitivism which (IMO) is justified: we all have to 'take it on faith' that things mean what we want them to mean. That is, as Wittgenstein famously pointed out, the meaning of utterances is given by their use and not by some mysterious psychical accompaniment or the grinding of symbolic gears in the brain: > There must surely be a further, different connexion between my talk and N, for otherwise I should still not have meant HIM. > Certainly such a connexion exists. Only not as you imagine it: namely by means of a mental mechanism. - Philosophical Investigations ยง689 This is a drum I've been quietly banging for some time! [2],[3] 1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627 (but see [4]) 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10158214 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18880260 4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34638196 |
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