I''ll say that all of the words Cheerskep lists, and all others he can come up with, are ultimately based on sensory experience. They may indeed be abstractions or descriptions of abstractions, but like any family genealogy includes a multiplicity of connecting lines and widely diverse origins, the lineage or descent is traceable. Aristotle had a linear notion of how the mind deals with sense data, and he was wrong because now it seems clear that a "feedback" looping and expanding associational process is going on, engaging subjectivity, feelings, with sense data, in constant reformulation. But at least Aristotle, in trying to deal with imagination, said it was part of what happens to our sensing -- something was added or subtracted, making new ideas. So, for him we may infer that sense data was transformed by imagination which we may say is analogous to felling and reformulation, the subjectivity, and its descriptions, that Cheerskep identifies below. WC
> manipulating other abstractions. Here are a few. > Take a notion like > "implication", > the term in first order logic. Indeed, take the word > 'logic'. Or the word > 'fallacy'. Or the word 'unique'. I can think of many > such words I'd be hard > put to > trace back to sense data. > > Meaning > Idea > Concept > Fact > Truth > Statement > Saying > Relations > Property > Having > Possessing > Belonging > Own, owning > Mine > Giving > Denoting > Designating > Naming > Signifying > Referring > Mentioning > Expressing > Knowing (and knowledge) > Understanding > Aboutness > Truth > Clarity > Category > Explanation > Rule > Purpose > Intending > Being (as an action) > Disposition > belief > Satisfy > Value > Life > Unique > Original > Important > Content > Fairness > Art > Class > Taste > > > > > > ************** > Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists > on family > favorites at AOL Food. > > (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)
