Religion
In reply to the discussion: What is happening in the religious world? [View all]so you have serious background . I've been a professional translator and done also technical writing, but also poetry with interest and academic background in many things, among them general linguistics and philosophy of language.
It seems obvious that linguistic communication (including internal dialogue of conscious thinking) gives form and shape to our deeper sensations and thoughts and "knowing by heart", as the English expression says, and thus also restricts the scope and variety of meaning (in terms of general linguistics, morphology and syntax restrict the scope and variety of semantics and pragmatics).
We approach dialogue and communication with different backgrounds and expectations, and your criticism is a good remainder to be more consciouss about them. I see playfull and creative attitude to linguistic communication a good antidote against dogmatic belief in propositional sentences - whether those propositional sentences represent belief systems of biblical literalism or pseudoskeptic scientism.
Propositional sentences are good servants in right context (e.g. technical manuals) but bad masters as ideological constructs and hierarchical power systems, and I like and try to be critical and skeptical of all belief systems based on propositional sentences aka 'literalism', regardless of the specifics of the belief system. This criticism is more general and not allways easy to express clearly, especially as people or persons tend to identify with their belief systems of propositional sentences and be very emotional about them.
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Gödel's proof is not unrelated in this context, as it put the end to the dream that all of math could be derived from propositional logic. Gödel's proof is also not unrelated to his philosophy of mathematical Platonism - that math is deeper and more fundamental than classical physics and neurology. In terms of logic, mathematics and rationalism in general it is not an exaggeration to speak about pre- and post-Gödelian eras, though in many minds the pre-era ideas and attitudes still prevail. Change is usually a slow and gradual process, and AFAIK what is taught in schools about math etc. is still pre-Gödelian to great extent.