Some Notes and Insights About Language After Watching Leo's Video On Language

[Joseph Maynor]

Language and the Mind are a lot more slippery than you have assumed.  (Leo)

We take words as givens.  As like -- this is just how life is.  (Leo)

When you start to see that we're just playing word-games, that's a huge insight.  We're just adding some sounds to reality like birds chirping in the forest -- while reality looks lazily on.  (The second sentence is my insight ("birds chirping"))

The Mind tricks itself by assuming that it knows words when it doesn't.  Look up words and become mindful of how words are used, even the most basic of words.  (Leo)

The Mind is murky about many essential concepts.  This is why investigation of words will give you more clarity of what both words and concepts actually are.  Practice mindfulness of this.  (Leo)

Help me extend more insights by contributing more about words, language, meaning, etc.

Edited December 15, 2017 by Joseph Maynor

[snowleopard]

Case in point, the word 'individual' ...

ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense [indivisible] ): from medieval Latin individualis, from Latin individuus, from in- ‘not’ + dividuus ‘divisible’ (from dividere ‘to divide’ ).

In other words, 'not divided' ... how paradoxical is that?