Language and Reality (Humans)

by BBella , Thursday, April 07, 2011, 21:12 (4978 days ago) @ dhw

I'd like to inject a thought on this discussion at this point, altho I know we all know this and have even been stated here and there in the discussion, yet still may or not be useful said from a slightly different perspective.-There is a part of reality that exist on the unmeasurable spiritual or ethereal level that can only be comprehended and observed by that same level of reality that exists within us; the mind. -Then there is the part of reality that exist on the physical plane that our physical aspect can explore (along with the mind) and measure and know in a physical, concrete sense, if only for language or communication sake. -Of course both realities are one reality yet have a dualistic nature and does intertwine just like the human (mind & matter) and all that is in nature. There is that which we can see and touch and that which we can't see and touch, yet there is evidence that both exist in reality. One can be observed or weighed and measured while the other cannot. How much influence each has on the other or where their boundaries begin and end we cannot know. -Each of us have the ability (because of the ability to focus the mind) to observe different boundaries within reality or in extraordinary times to even bring our physical aspect past the accepted boundaries and limitations. So for each human mind the boundary and limitations of reality is movable, foggy and always different.-So to respect our inability to measure where the beginning and end of the different aspects of reality is, it would seem that a line would have to be drawn in the sand as an arbitrary agreement between two people to have a simple discussion about reality. -One example of a simple but near useless boundary (unless agreed upon) might be an agreement of that which can be touched and that which can't be. Or that which can be seen by the eye (including microscope) and that which can't be, etc. Other than boundaries agreed upon like this, it would seem to me discussion's about reality and language can go nowhere but round and round.-Just a thought.