Light of the Mind (Words, Words, Words 27)

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Let's pick up where we left off last week: words are symbols of symbols, representing inward states of the soul. But those inward states are also symbols, because the world is symbolic--that is, it naturally produces symbols as a real feature of its construction. So...what do we do about it? To answer that question we turn to Thomas Aquinas, whose little book De Natura Verbi Intellectus tells you everything you need to know about Adam naming the animals, and probably also about quantum superposition. Which is...cool.

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0:00.0	You probably thought I had had enough of Thomas Aquinas.
0:06.3	Well, it's never enough, okay? It's never enough! Am I a little bit manic? I won't say no, but listen, you guys ask me these incredible questions and you expect me to just stay calm
0:26.8	What do you take me for I can't possibly remain calm when we're talking about the grand theory of translation developed between
0:36.4	Aristotle in the ancient world and Thomas Aquinas in the medieval world which is
0:40.6	also by and large my theory not just of translation but kind of of everything
0:45.9	this is also sort of my metaphysics although there are versions of it that work better for thinking
0:51.6	about language and versions of it that work better for thinking about language and versions of it that work better for
0:54.0	thinking about physics and other stuff, but I think this, I would call it a tripartite symbolic
0:59.2	theory of the world makes sense out of a whole lot of stuff and I think a lot of people in the
1:05.3	modern era have sort of rediscovered it. I've mentioned Chuck Pierce. Obviously I
1:10.3	talk all the time about quantum physics. If you're just joining us for the very first time, welcome. I'm so glad you're here. This is Young Hertics, the classical education that you didn't know you were missing. And on Fridays Fridays we talk about translation.
1:25.0	Words, words, words is our Friday series where I take questions about how language works and how the transition between different languages work.
1:31.0	And last week I got asked by Blaine, a listener, to just go ahead and pony up and put down in one episode what I think translation is and how the soul communicates its inward experience out to the world
1:46.5	and I said I'll do it in one episode and then I'll say more in the second episode so this is it
1:51.5	We're here in the second part, this is it we're here in the second part but just to recap
1:54.4	basically what I think about words and languages based on Aristotle's day interpret
1:58.7	a Tatione where he says that the world is symbolic, meaning that it consists of
2:05.6	sumvala, which is a Greek word coming from the words meaning throw together.
2:12.0	So the world is full of tendencies or patterns. When you have this thing, then you have that thing.
2:18.0	Where you have a fire, the fire produces smoke. And if the tendencies are natural they happen every time
2:24.6	100% of the time works every time you can always count on ice to freeze or fire to
2:32.4	burn there are certain
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