(October 6, 2018 at 11:45 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: You didn't answer the question. I asked you how you go about determining what they mean. And no, not everybody means the same thing by chair if there even is a good definition of it, which there really isn't. What does the Platonic form of a chair look like? Does it have three legs or four? Or does it have any legs at all?
My department chair has two legs. I've even seen her jogging.
Didn't Wittgenstein demonstrate that there are perfectly good English words which don't have precise definitions? Game. Art. Love.
Also, I seem to recall that apophatic and negative theology agrees that no definition of God is possible. This was no problem for theologians.
