Do you think there are things which are unexplainable by the use of language?
Do you think there is things which cannot be explained by a language(I mean, things which cannot be writen as a set of sentences) like if anyone tryies to explain it, he will always need to be more detailed about that(writing more sentences) to express its full meaning, in a way our explanation will never be completely right, like if we would be always missing something ?
Or maybe something like that which cannot be expressed by a language, or a set of sentences, is the same to say that this thing doesn´t exist ?
Ok... I have some mathematical analogies for that:
like irrational numbers for example pi, e, phi, etc.... those are numbers that are infinite, you cannot write them matemathically, just make aproximations, like 3,14(particularly Pitagoras didn´t like the the concept of irracional numbers... for him they looked somewhat "unreal", because they could not be expressed entirely).
another example is the concept of infinite used in mathematics, when something goes up to infinite, its because it cannot be expressed in a limited number of sentences
0!( which is = 1) can be only defined as a sum of a infinite number of terms.
A non-mathematical example would be concepts like nothingness I think... since we cannot express it, God too I think.... or any too metaphysical concepts.
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There'S a great poem by Michael Ende (the guy who wrote The Neverending Story) aboot Realists and trying to explain reality....he says it is impossible to Write aboot reality because it is a way to big concept to grasp.....
Now, yes I believe there are things that cannot explained with language especially since there are things we can't understand...wec cannot explain something we can'*t know, although except for mathematical problems I think Language can be extended to explain most things (although we can't know if we explained them right )
Anyways...you have a strange ability to post threads aboot things I talked aboot with my father not too long ago.....
trying to explain a color, and then I don't mean the physics behind it, I mean just the way you perceive it. I do not think one can actually describe a colour to the point where someone else knows entirely what you mean. Without showing it to him or her, and even with showing the other person could still see it only a tiny bit different.
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Love is the most difficult to explain...You can't even explain it with words...It's the most wonderful feeling, yet invisible to see...But just as real....Some try to use words, but can never find them...others use metaphors...Some are afraid to say at all.....How can you explain something that is so incredible....I don't think you can....It just happens....usually when your not looking........It's a place only in your Dreams...........
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Love too... thats because I like poems they are a way to express somethings like feelings, and sensations. I cannot say logically what love is in a set of senteces, but art can express those feelings in a better way.
Walking through a beautiful forest as I usually do, I came upon a swirling Vortex....Quite stunning...I sat and watched for quite awhile...I saw it interesting...but just watched...I became curious and then stuck my hand inside....pulled it out...quite nice, I thought...the next day...I stuck in my leg....even more wonderful was the feeling....Day after day I came and watched...but the vortex changed into many different radiant colors....glistening....How mesmerized I was....then...I started hearing beautiful sounds coming from it...like music....How brilliant it was....Suddenly I started feeling a strange pull from it...I stood next to a tree and knew I should hang on to it....but what I really wanted to do was jump into it.....
There are indeed concepts that we all have an accepted understanding of, but the moment you try to define them in any way, the meaning is hard to capture.
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