<!>A language where each consonant has a meaning (2023-06-05 20:01:01)
A language where each consonant has a meaning
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Looks like a good start. This is called a philosophical language; you might be interested to see how others have approached the problems inherent in philosophical languages, like how to organize concepts, or how referring to specific objects can require really long words. Many languages of this category are designed to seek absolute, canonical names for all things, and they run into some special problems—like how to avoid cultural bias, how to refer to unknown individuals, how to deal with numbering sequences that contain spurious or lost entries,1 and how to refer to paradoxical objects.2
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1. Are you still the third child in your family after your older siblings die? What about step-siblings, or illegitimate children? Even if you come up with a strategy to solve these problems—which would require making a culturally-based value judgement about what constitutes family membership, and is hence not neutral—how can you possibly account for miscarriages your parents never told you about? Only with total knowledge of the universe can all sequence-numbering issues reliably be avoided.
2. Everything good in life can be ruined by a carefully-constructed diagonal argument.
1. Are you still the third child in your family after your older siblings die? What about step-siblings, or illegitimate children? Even if you come up with a strategy to solve these problems—which would require making a culturally-based value judgement about what constitutes family membership, and is hence not neutral—how can you possibly account for miscarriages your parents never told you about? Only with total knowledge of the universe can all sequence-numbering issues reliably be avoided.
2. Everything good in life can be ruined by a carefully-constructed diagonal argument.