A question about Truth

[bennyboy]

Er, no. The symbols of language have no intrinsic meaning whatsoever. And yet it is meaning that is a prerequisite for truth.

I think I just said that. Language is a system of organizing and communicating symbols, but it is the symbols themselves which are subject to evaluations of truth-- not the words. The next question is whether symbols can form without language. For example, could the sense of self be fully formed if one lacked a name?

Not sure about that. I do think that the differentiation between the "self" and that which is not the self is most probably where we start, but it's certainly not by means Descartes' cogito, which is a circular argument. It's by recognition of the incorrigible knowledge that there are phenomena called thoughts. Yes, I'm nitpicking here.

I don't know what "incorrigible knowledge" means.