Semantics

Semantics is the philosophical and scientific study of meaning or truth in natural and artificial languages.

Semantics Notes

• Model Agnosticism
• Emic Reality
• Etic Reality
• Reality tunnel
• Reality labyrinth
• The brain’s perceptual systems actively and pre-consciously interpret and edit their input
• Because perception is not absolute, all of our ideas are somewhat conjectural and inferential
• Language can be seen as a kind of metaphor
• The word “matter” can be seen as metaphorical
• The word “is” can be seen as a metaphor
• The word “the” can be seen as a metaphor
• Idolatry
• People have a tendency to become territorial over their belief systems
• Self-referential statement
• Fundamentalist Materialism attempts to make reality conform to its models
• Anything that cannot be measured is considered meaningless or nonexistent to science
• A genius is one who is able to create new semantic maps out of intuition
• The word “normal” has always been elusive
• Modern medical science has struggled to develop a solid definition for “health” and “illness”
• The cutoffs in the bell-shaped curves which psychology often relies on to define normality are determined by context
• Mental disorder and and normality are too ambiguous to distinguish between
• The ambiguity between mental disorder and normality puts into question which disorders should be included in the DSM and who receives diagnosis
• The threshold for diagnosing mental disorders are somewhat arbitrary and can be adjusted

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