Timeline for What's the simplest thing?
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| Nov 18, 2019 at 22:20 | vote | accept | XCore | ||
| Oct 11, 2019 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhilosophy/status/1182536474069217280 | ||
| Oct 8, 2019 at 16:47 | comment | added | Geoffrey Thomas♦ | Wittgenstein, Tractatus, 2.0211 ff. on simple objects is relevant. | |
| Oct 8, 2019 at 5:15 | comment | added | Rushi | You may wish to look up Natural Semantic Metalanguage (which I learnt of from here) | |
| Oct 7, 2019 at 18:39 | answer | added | RodolfoAP | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 7, 2019 at 17:40 | comment | added | user38026 | but maybe we had an idea of non-being long before we were counting? @JeffUK | |
| Oct 7, 2019 at 16:00 | history | edited | XCore | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 7, 2019 at 10:54 | comment | added | JeffUK | Surely 1 is the 'simplest' number, especially if you're trying to explain the concept to other people. It took us many thousands of years of counting before we discovered 0 | |
| Oct 7, 2019 at 5:49 | comment | added | christo183 | Let's put that another way: You are an entity alone in the (something)verse. You have never had the need to communicate - no language. Then you meet "Another" (like you)... One may take it that some sort of orientation/calibration would precede a free flow of ideas. Thus I would suggest the "simplest" idea (like zero is the simplest number) would be ground/down/floor/gravity/baseline | |
| Oct 7, 2019 at 3:06 | comment | added | Conifold | Hi, welcome to Philosophy SE. The theory of constructing complex ideas from simple ones was developed by Locke, see simple ideas, but it is considered too naive in modern cognitive science and philosophy. According to modern studies, concepts are mastered in clusters, with interrelated "ideas" mastered simultaneously through their interaction in various contexts, and there are multiple ways of "building" some from others, which can then be declared "simple" for the purpose. Various formalizations of mathematics are a good illustration of that. | |
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| Oct 7, 2019 at 0:53 | comment | added | curiousdannii | A lot of overlap with Since words are defined in terms of other words in dictionaries, leading to infinite loops, does it mean natural languages are meaningless? | |
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| Oct 7, 2019 at 0:07 | history | asked | XCore | CC BY-SA 4.0 |