Figuring things out

Language is fun.  Do our words convey what we are really experiencing?  Are words connected to, or related to, reality?  For example, linguists say that there is probably no word we use now that did not begin its life as a metaphor ; as a colourful figure of speech ; not ‘literal’ or ‘concrete’ at [...]

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Reason be our guide

Just as the diehard materialist believes that all knowledge comes from some primaeval event such as the Big Bang, so the diehard theist believes that all knowledge comes from the Creator.  It is significant that neither of these beliefs is supportable by any direct sensory evidence of the everyday kind, but both are derived from [...]

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It’s too simple

Almost all science (knowledge) is concerned with abstractions.  The world is too complex for a human mind to grasp in its functioning, dynamic entirety.  So we break it down into manageable chunks ; and most of those chunks are are very small indeed – chunklets – and it is these abstracted bits of the world [...]

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Genesis. But the genesis of what?

What is the tale that the Book of Genesis is telling? Taking a linguistic perspective.

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