User:Skakkle/it is what it is

from Theological_noncognitivism:

Another way of expressing theological noncognitivism is, for any sentence S, S is cognitively meaningless if and only if S expresses an unthinkable proposition or S does not express a proposition. The sentence X is a four-sided triangle that exists outside of space and time, cannot be seen or measured and it actively hates blue spheres is an example of an unthinkable proposition. Although the sentence expresses an idea, that idea is incoherent and so cannot be entertained in thought. It is unthinkable and unverifiable. Similarly, does not express a meaningful proposition. In this sense to claim to believe in X or Y is a meaningless assertion in the same way as I believe that colorless green ideas sleep furiously is grammatically correct but without meaning.

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I added the. cuz ppl say this shit all the time. and if you read the term "a proposition" like wittgenstein would of course it's meaningless or even senseless in wittgenstein's usage of "sense" of a proposition. wittgenstein also said


 * Man possesses the capacity of constructing languages, in which every sense can be expressed, without having an idea how and what each word means -- just as one speaks without knowing how the single sounds are produced.


 * Colloquial language is a part of the human organism and is not less complicated than it.


 * From it it is humanly impossible to gather immediately the logic of language.


 * Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.


 * The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.