Behaviour mentioned as a sign of interpretation of a language . The way I live as help to understanding my philosophy. If Martians do not understand human language will it help, if they watch how they behave. Say they heard words and saw the word initiated actions so that they saw humans going to a place and saw them give paper in exchange for commodities. Whoever advanced a behaviour theory of truth like a Robinson Crusoe will have guessed what human beings are. No wonder language understood as a code pointed at Wittgenstein who began with Moses and said Moses is all that the Bible says he is. He was interpreting Moses without the help of Frege . Mankind without revelation relied on tradition like Christmas to atleast wonder that something suprnatural must have happened 2000 years ago which mankind celebrates as the birth of love.

Michael Dummett in a chapter on Truth -value and reference solves the problem I had with sentence. Given a word you simply point at the object the word refers to ; but what if you are given a sentence ? ” Because the doctrine of reference is itself complex , the thesis that truth-values are the referents of sentences has several strands. ” Michael Dummett frege philosophy of language .

My first reaction is, ‘ x is the author of Waverley.’ the variable x waits for the truth -value Walter Scott which makes the truth of the sentence Walter Scott is the author of Waverley. Unlike the cathedral of Cologne where a correspondence theory of truth failed because the referent is a non-linguistic entity but the sentence linguistic. Why do we have no problem here with truth-value as referent ? Because we now say the semantic role of expressions “…for Frege the notion of reference is not , of course, …For Frege , it was a defect of natural language that it permitted the formation of expressions which have a sense, but lack a referent. ” ibid.

A sentence like I believe in God will make sense but then you , they, the others may not agree if they are atheists etc. And so truth of a sentence will be different from the meaning of a sentence. The God mankind refers to on Christmas Day shows “…the doctrine of reference is itself complex, …” ibid.

I am alive. That is the premise from which all conclusions follow. In other words I am reducing life to logic . Not to deductive logic but to inductive logic. So that I stay within a rationalism I can afford to play with . Life provides me with color, sound, space and time , love, and truth. Sounds like a predict but it is a short novel . A philosophy of a kind I came across while reading Michael Dummetts FREGE on Abstract Objects. frege philosophy of language , Michael Dummett

A word gets its reference from the object it names. And a sentence ? Where does it gate its reference ? The ancients saw the problem and solved it . ” As we have seen , Frege’s approach to questions of ontology involves a clean break with the tradition which had prevailed in philosophy upto his time and which is still exemplified by such works as Strawson’s Individuals. ” ibid.

The solution ls the discovery of universals. A word stands for a particular entity but a sentence is not a word. And what is there is not what are there. So ontology being of what is there the problem of philosophy arises when a reference is needed to give meaning ,

“…it is by a study of the character of predicates that we shall come to understand the essential nature of universals. ” ibid

We had no problem with particulars . There is a word there is an object.

A sentence however are many words in one sentence . Already here we can intuitively say there is something of part and whole involved , a word as a part and a sentence as a whole. We may simplify and say it is simply a case of singular and plural . A sentence and many words. Ein Mann ein Wort , eine Frau ein Wörterbuch wie wir in Deutschland sagen. Spaß beiseite , how did Quine solve the problem when he wrote Word & Object ?

A chair is an object . No problem , there you hear the word chair and you can point at a chair you see and the problem is solved. But now you get to the second semester and you are asked to solve a tougher problem. You get an abstract object .

” But to give such an account of an abstract noun is precisely to deny it the status of a genuine term or proper name : …” ibid.

To write, paint, compose , sing a song or take a walk are a few samples of infinite givens an author writes about. The surprise is in the act of creation which though synthetic is apriori . And here is the end of the writing which is made of two sentences . Now imagine a God who writes ! No finite thing can satisfy her , she needs more. Why , where, how, who as questions without answers are legitimate as they are. Now to bring colour and talk of red, violet , purple, and blue velvet does help bring diversity to a world with or without colour. In staying creative you need a book with a plot so that the drama has a sequence and a series. Something happens and you wish you were a Shakespeare , a Goethe or simply a Charles Dickens . You open your curtain and look outside in search of a motive. Green leaves , blue sky, erect trees without leaves, a swaying suggests wind invisible . Brings nostalgia , the veranda , no sentimental yearning for things of a la recherche du temps perdu, everything is found, the truth and the deception .

Nature in Ethiopic is called Tefetro . Literal translation of ‘ teftro ‘ is ‘ creation. ‘ God created .

” In the begining God created the heavens and the earth. ” Genesis 1.1

What does ‘ nature ‘ mean in a literal translation ? My latin is not my natural language. Both English, german., french use the word nature .

to regard language as a source of knowledge is simillar with regarding the earth as the center of the universe. We need philosophy to know what knowledge is. Plato is closer to Christianity some say, Aristotle however is not an atheist . But both Plato and Aristotle are rationalists. No bizare assertion in the name of philosophy has any any chance of cheating . There will be different philosophies and in the end a democratic majority decides who rules , one man one vote.

To talk of original sin in connection with Adam and Eve as I did in my previous blog betrays a naive theology an Augustinus can live without. What were theology without the help of philosophy ? In the service of theology , philosophy illuminates God and makes the Unknown an abstract Entity .

Shakespeare becomes the better preacher than even a saint Paul .

To return to original sin. It has more to do with the Birth of Christ . Virgin Mary gave birth to Emmanuel .We celebrate Christmas as the Birth Day of the Messiah, the Saviour. From what danger are we humans saved ? Now the question becomes philosophical . And add to it the Devil in disguise who is clever at deception so much so that it poses as a Christ and misleads . The New Testament is created with the Birth of Jesus Christ. The Old Testament some say Moses wrote will take you to a twothousand year of a continious debate about the origin and meaning of religion. Der Dreizigjährige Krieg of Schiller ( wie lange hat der dreizigjährige Krieg gedauert ? ) und Shakespeare in Hamlet , Goethe in Faust etc.

Martin Dumett did ask what Abstract Objects are. ” Questions such as whether or not there are any abstract objects , what abstract objects there are , what abstract objects are …” Michael Dummett frege philosophy of language Harvard University Press 1973

This is an approach made by rationalists who claim knowledge about God with or without revelation. At least they can tell you what God is not if they can’t tell what God is. Because to know what God is one needs a revelation . Is revelation a higher form of an inspiration ? Some say it is the origin that matters, Kants a priori is of a divine origin. You won’t get by an experiment of a trial and error. But there is science, no doubt. Here helps John Stuart Mill with inductive logic which needs no apriori. So you see the controversy gets born with the coming of God to the world on Christmas Day.

Happy Mankind , O Happy Day.

April 12., 1982

” Though I expected her to come sooner or later, I never expected her to be realy there . But as if

an unknown God residing in me were also in love with her and using his divine power could make her appear anytime He liked , she appeared and stood really there. -just like a woman seen in a dream . And as if it were arranged by this god of Love , the seat next to me was free …” aus meinem Notizbuch TNS

Geschrieben wie es ist in der Zeit der Verbannung , for lack of a better word I call it Verbannung and I mean all the time before 2008. There is some truth in it and it is upto me to tell the Good from the Bad. Living in the world as I do now, I am surprised at the fact of finding an old note , as old as 1982 and comparing it to what has happened in all the years in between. That I am alive helps me correct my human mistakes. It becomes a question of responsibility if I say I can do anything I want to do , I will be testing God Almighty . It is good I am alive . I discovered Shakespeare like you discover a new continent. ” O good old man , how well in thee appears

The constant service of the antique world, Oh guter alter Mann , wie sehr doch in dir der beständige Dienst der alten Welt hervortritt , als Dienst für Pflicht schwitzte und nicht für Belohnung . ”

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A theory of description as Russells is closer to Spinozas God with infinite attributes .A Living God has necessarily all his infinte attributes . So the truth of substance in life is not a mere predicate but an existential fact. So being in the world is like Heideggers Sein und Zeit. But where Russell does not make a distinction between entities in disposition and those in reality, manifested and potential ones Heidegger like Sarte writes about a phenomenollogical ontology.

As You Like It Wie es euch gefällt William Shakespeare

A life with God brings Shakespeare more than the Bible. Rosalind and Celia , Charles and Orlando to whom Ros . says

” …sir, you have wrestled well, and overthrown

More than your enemies . “

Nature created Shakespeare , Reading a translation of As You Like It in German on the other page

and the original English of Shakespeare on this side, helps me improve my German so good that I now speak German as a living langauge . And since life is everywhere as it was in the bus yesterday where, a Chinese, an African , an East European, a German , two girls to my right …all on the way to Elisenbrunnen where the Aachener Weihnachtsmarkt takes place reminds me of a life with God by asking me What do we celebrate on Christmas Day ? I answer with Shakspeare , we celebrate life, musical life, divine life that came to earth with the birth of love.

April 22. 2010

Nicht entzückende Lust , sondern würdevolle Liebe bis zum Tod war Gotteswürdig. Und so rettette mich Gott vor dem Feind. Epheser 1: 1-23 Kollosä 1: 16-17

Durch den sich opferenden Tod vernichtete Gott den Feind und setzte sich zur rechten Seite Gottes. , kam dann herunter zu mir und machte mich zu Gott wurde mich ( Ich ).

Doch er hat uns so sehr geliebt dass er uns mit Christus neues Leben schenkte. Alles war so geplant vom Höchsten Die Würde des Lebens = Liebe= Liebe bis zu sterben für den Freund . Wir sind sein Werk , durch Jesus Christus neue geschaffen , um gutes zu tun.

Durch ihn ist alles erschaffen , was im Himmel und auf der Erde ist , sichtbares und unsichtbares, Königreiche und Mächte, Herrscher und Gewalten , Alles ist durch ihn und für ihn geschaffen …alles besteht durch ihn

Der Feind Gottes mit seinen Verführungskünsten wird er alle auf seine Seite bringen die verloren sind.

Abrew motche abre tenesahu.

In the imperial gardens of Rome , created God by my God. Warum sagt David, Herr zu seinem Sohn . Ich und der Vater sind Eins.

Zare tefetseme Rassew yerrasse igzer honku.

April 22, 2010