Hey what up, I want to talk about another
one of my favorite philosophical problems.
Now, I'm not exactly sure this is a called
a... well let's just get right into it. So
we all have beliefs, we believe different
things. Most of us probably believe that the
sky is blue. Now regardless of other things
like whether or not our beliefs are true or
not we have them and beliefs are generally.
They're propositions, right? That we either
agree with or disagree with. So I previously
said the proposition: The sky is blue. Now,
you would think that the proposition in English,
saying "The Sky is Blue" or in french, or
in german, or in spanish, would be the exact
same proposition. If you believe one, you
would believe all of them. If you believe
the sky is blue in english, you would believe
the sky is blue in french, spanish, german,
in every language. Presumably whether or not
you spoke it or not, you would assume that
it was the same proposition. But... it's actually
kind of not. And there's a problem that explains
this. So, there's this guy that grows up in
France. And he grows up speaking french. Through
his childhood he sees and hears about the
city of Londres. And he forms the belief that
Londre is a beautiful city he wants to live
there, it's his dream. Now, through various
twists of fate he ends up going to England
and he lives in London. And he lives in a
shitty part of london. He formulates this
second belief that London is Ugly. Now, this
one person... you could be like semantic or
whatever, but basically he in english thinks
"London is ugly" and in French he thinks Londres
[which is London] is beautiful". And things
cannot be ugly, you can't think one thing
is ugly and beautiful simultaneously. That's
the idea here. Right there's one propostion
that we're talking about, the English version
of "London is Pretty" and the French version
of "London is Pretty". In French he agrees,
in English he disagrees. So, the result of
this problem is that the proposition "London
is Pretty" he believes it in French, he doesn't
believe it in English. And you can't hold
a belief that you agree with and disagree
with, right? It would have to be two separate
beliefs. So, therefore they'd have to be two
separate propositions, which means that the
proposition "London is Pretty" in English
is a different proposition when you translate
it into French. Even if it is like... a perfect
1-to-1 translation. There's no fucking with
it or anything like that just.. you know,
word-for-word. And that's really weird. Um,
I don't really have an answer for this. It's
just sort of like wow... the language in which
we speak has a little bit more strength in
it than otherwise. And remember, just to go
over it one more time... this guy has naturally
formed the belief that "Londres is beautiful",
he has naturally formed the belief that "London
is Ugly". He does not know that London and
Londres are the same city. He holds those
beliefs simultaneously. He agrees and disagrees
with what would be the same proposition. Therefore,
they must be separate propositions. I think
that's really trippy. Speaking of Trippy I
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