53. Is the word “red” enough to enable one to look for something red?
Does one need a memory image to do so?
An order. Is the real order “Do now what you remember doing then?”
If the colour sample appears darker than I remember it being yesterday,
I need not agree with my memory.
is the word ‘red’ enough to enable me to look for something red? Does
one need a memory image to do so?
‘red’ as with any other word – is an open concept – defined – or given
application by practice – by use
the logic of ‘red’ – just is the class of propositional actions that we
have learned in relation to the use of the word –
what we are talking about here is
logical action –
a memory image may or may not
accompany such action –
it’s an accessory – perhaps
useful in certain circumstances – but not logically necessary
the issue is not memory – but
rather the application of a propositional practise –
the matter is logical – not
imaginary
‘do now what you remember doing
then’ –
this statement like memory itself
– is really an accessory –
let us say for example that the
statement that this statement is actually referring to is –
‘go and do the shopping’ –
there is no question of memory –
and yes you could obfuscate the
matter by using the first statement –
but that is really only to
demonstrate your expertise in irrelevancy
if the colour sample appears darker than I remember it being yesterday,
I need not agree with my memory –
if I recognize the colour sample as red – whether it agrees with a
memory of yesterday or not – is irrelevant
and ‘recognition’ here – is application –
and application is a logical action
© greg t. charlton. 2014.
