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| sometimes a new light shines into your mind. we ought to give it some thought |
When the mind does its work it is being creative. First the thought has to come to expression from its original
idea or notion. There are various problems as regards language. First of what actually occurs in our mind when we use language with intention and meaning something by it. Second as to what is the relation between words and the thoughts they intend to express; the thought itself, the reference to what the words imply and how they are received by the one listening or reading them. We must as well understand the use of them in our own thought patterns. And third as to the using of words in conjunction with phrases and sentences the thoughts express and their relation of one statement to another conveying the idea or notion of the original thought. The last is a logical question which is of most concern that our expressions have the meaning intended. In practice language is merely as precise as the words used to portray a given thought. The object of philosophy is an activity clarifying thoughts
from one person to another. IT IS AN ACTIVITY PRODUCED BY THE MIND TO DISCOVER LOGICAL CONNECTIONS between things and other ideas created from the mind itself. So in a manner of speaking we pass knowledge to one another and create for ourself a basis of elemental thoughts that our own philosophy can be grounded to and raised to the heights of creative thinking ; or the dreams themselves we are given thought to.
We must ,originally, have a notion of a greater world than the one we know so that we can have a certain sureness of the spirit within and that which surrounds us metaphysically speaking of the great spirit of nature itself and the intelligent spirit of the architect of nature just the same.
