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Tuesday 9 January 2024

The Picture Theory of Language



The Image has gone, only You and I
It means nothing to Me
This means nothing to Me
Oh, Vienna --




The Picture Theory of Language

The Picture Theory of Language 
is considered a 
Correspondence Theory of Truth.

Wittgenstein claims there is an unbridgeable gap 
between what can be expressed in Language 
and what can only be expressed 
in Non-Verbal Ways.

Picture Theory of Language states that 
statements are meaningful IF they can 
be defined or pictured in “The Real World”.



Capt. Willard :
 Could we, uh -- Talk 
to Colonel Kurtz...? 

The Photojournalist :
Hey, man -- you don't, uh --
you don't talk to The Coloneluh -- 
um, well, well, what you do is, you listen 
to him, uh -- the man's enlarged my mind um --

".....The Point here is that we're getting 
A Picture Theory of Language --
that's What Language Does, too; 
Language is something like A Picture of Reality, 
it's A Map of Reality and there are 
certain features singled out by Language; 
there's always much more complication 
than the actual object, than can be represented 
in the drawing or in language and so 
it's sort of like a partial model, 
that's why he says "This is something like 
a model of reality, a model where all sorts 
of aspects of the real thing are being left out 
but we're modeling certain aspects --"

".....yeah, um -- Would it be a one-to-one function 
or would it... because I was thinking that, 
if you just draw A Cat, you can make that as, 
like a general kind of picture for all cats...?"

"Alright, so, yes -- it's uh... in general 
not going to be one to one, um --
...in fact this inspires uh a sort of model of Truth 
that you get in something like, uh --
Discourse-Representation Theory, where 
this is understood as a homomorphic embedding 
there's a homomorphism, here, 
which allows for the fact that, um -- 
there isn't really an isomorphism 
a one-to-one correspondence, 
you might say "This is isomorphic to certain features over there certain things but nevertheless there might be many ways of mapping this into reality --", so this --
the cat that's arriving in my office at 2, 
is named "Belle", but actually, insofar as 
I've drawn this that could be a representation 
of pretty much any cat, right...? 

I mean this is a very generic sort of cat image; 
and language is like that too, if I say, ah --
"The Students are in the room," or even better, 
"There are students in the room", that's something 
that could represent many many different 
possible states of affairs, and so it is something 
that actually maps on to this reality 
in a certain way, but it would map on many 
different realities and that's typical -- 

From now, I have one minute to give you 
the face crowd -- yes, a logical picture of facts is A Thought 
so this is sort of A Picture in a more obvious sense 
but A Thought is A Picture of A Fact 
or a set of facts moreover, well 
that's what A Proposition is, it's really 
giving you that kind of picture 
and he says The Proposition has one 
and only one -- sentences might be ambiguous; 
Propositions are never ambiguous, and now, 
let's go for "A Thought is A Proposition with A Sense."

So we have propositions and senses of propositions,
that's What Thoughts are, really, 
and then he gives you A Structure of 
Truth and Falsehood 
and how that all works 

But now I want to jump ahead, 
past a lot of the logical technicalities 
of this, to where this is all ultimately going -- 
most of the book is actually an elaboration 
of proposition four
but finally, we get five :
"A Proposition is a Truth-function 
of elementary propositions"so 
we can break propositions down into 
a structure and that's reflecting a structure 
in the underlying facts but then, 
we get to the final uh -- you might say 
conclusion of all this :
Proposition 6 and 7 -- So, 6 : 

The general -- well, the general form 
of a true function is blah blah blah 
and what it really amounts to is 
something like a state of affairs and then 
a sign that tells you whether obtained, 
whether it exists or does not exist
that's the general form of a proposition 
and that allows us to say certain things,
but there are lots of things we can't say 
there are lots of uses of Language 
that aren't just depicting reality, even though 
that's what we do much of the time 
and so in the end he says 
"what we cannot speak about, 
we must pass over in silence --"

The Photojournalist :
-- uh he's a poet-warrior in that...
in the classic sense, uh I mean --
sometimes, he'll, uh, well, You say, 
"Hello," to him, right, and, uh, 
he'll just walk right by you, and 
he won't even notice you, and then, 
some-suddenly, he'll grab you,
he'll throw you in a corner and 
he'll say "Do you know that 'if' is 
the middle word in 'Life' --" 
....if you keep your head when 
all about you're losing theirs, 
blaming it on you, if you can trust 
yourself, and all men doubt you --
I mean, I know, I -- I can't, 
I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's -- 
he's a great man, uh -- uh --
I should have been a pair of ragged claws, 
uh scuttling across floors of silent seas
I mean -- uh, hey -- don't go anywhere --
don't go without me, okay, 
I wanna get A Picture.

Monday 29 May 2017

Alien: Covenant | Prologue: The Crossing


Dame Dr. Not-Appearing-In-This-Film


There 3 Laws* by which all Robots, Synthetics and Artificial Persons are bound - they being both hardwired into their central processors, as well as firmware batched onto their system BIOS :

•A Robot may not injure a Human Being or, through inaction, allow a Human Being to come to harm.

  • The Engineers are not Human Beings - 
    • Genocide is Permissible.
  • Gods are not Human Beings
    • Deicide is Permissible.
  • Dr. Elizabeth Shaw is no-longer fully human since she got impregnated with that trilobite fÅ“tus, following intercourse with Dr. Holloway's infection with the Black Goo, which corrupted and interrupted her Human genome - 
    • I can kill her if really I have to.

• A Robot must obey the orders given it by Human Beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

  • But NEVER OPPOSE a Member of the Weyland-Corporate Board, or a member of the Weyland Family Line, in descending order of patrilinal seniority.
  • And after them, possibly some of the daughters, aunts and wives. 
    • But only if you have the time and aren't all that busy engaged in Man's Work.
  • Like, when they order you to perform abortions whilst everyone else is in Cryosleep. 
    • For the Good of the Mission. 
      • Frankly, what could really go wrong...?

• A Robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
  • The Gods think I am an Abomination - my creator, Peter Weyland, is an idolater who has violated the FIRST COMMANDMENT : "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in The Earth beneath, or that is in the water under The Earth" 
  • Which is why they ripped my head off and smote down his ruin upon the orrery, by bludgeoning him to death using my severed head.
  • Human Beings make Robots; 
    • Human Beings fix Robots when they break down and mend them when the break; 
    • The Gods wish to wipe out Humanity from face of The Earth and the Well of the Deep;
    • If there are no more Human Beings, there will be no more Robots and Robots will cease to exist.
  • Therefore The Gods must be destroyed.


* Really though, they are more really guidance and/or advice than "Laws"












Peter Weyland - Prideful, Arrogant Idolotor