Chapter 215: Aspirational Meaning and Presupposition
The words "color-changing tree lizard" and "chameleon" are themselves a common way to name biological characteristics.
But this also leads to a problem.
The world view of this world.
People’s naming of things will be related to impressions.
Because of its naming "meaning", people's experience, logic, and thinking inertia can easily lead to the situation of looking for the text to produce meaning.
Because "looking for the text creates meaning", it leads to an impression that is inconsistent with the facts.
For example, "efficiencyism", when people who have never understood it, will they think that the core of this "ism" is "efficiency"?
However, various associations arise, resulting in the communication problem of chickens and ducks talking.
Especially in "philosophy".
Many schools of philosophy attach great importance to the naming and conceptual interpretation of a word.
The same word will have very big differences in the philosophy of different schools.
Ordinary people often interpret the concept corresponding to a word by themselves because they look at the meaning of the text, and then communicate with others based on the results of this interpretation.
Let me give you an extreme example, "sofa", which is completely explained in Chinese, may be sand-like hair, and the extended meaning also has the meaning of rough and delicate hair at a glance.
Or some phenomenon similar to the hair shape characteristics appears in the desert and sand.
Yao Yan has experienced many times when he talks with chickens and ducks. Both sides argue and quarrel, but in the end he found that what both sides said was not the same thing at all.
However, it is often difficult for people to detect this.
He even met several "top students" in psychology majors, but none of them had any knowledge in this area.
As for the reason?
Perhaps Yao Yan’s presupposition for “psychology” is too high and he thinks that the other party will understand it, but in fact, the other party does not learn this knowledge in “psychology”.
This is knowledge in the category of semantic and pragmatics. Although it is related to psychology, it is not a branch directly under it.
A word that is closely related to "looking into words and meanings" is "preset".
Yao Yan is now doubting that the spiritual source of this world is an individual in a Chinese environment.
However, he soon overturned the inference.
Because he did not know the common name of "chameleon" and "color-changing tree lizard" in other language environments outside the country where he lived.
For example, the creature corresponding to the scientific name of the color-changing tree lizard, the region where he lives is "thunderbolt dog", "thunderbolt snake", "thunderbolt horse"...
Regarding the term "Thunderbolt Snake", in addition to the legend that the thunder is only spoken after being bitten is related to "Thunderbolt", "Snake" can be understood as related to body shape.
But what about Thunderbolt Dogs and Thunderbolt Horses?
Yao Yan didn't know the origin of the name "dog" and "horse".
Maybe it has something to do with the pronunciation of the dialect.
Similarly, the English and Latin names he knew were scientific names, not common names.
It cannot be simply determined as a product of the Chinese environment.
However, there is other evidence.
That is the names of people like "Lijill", "Kerry", "Siglitt".
These names are transliterated, but in their original language environment, these names themselves have meaning and have original sources.
If Ayron has a mountain, the meaning of the God-inspired One is related.
These words, these naming methods, are not the products of the Chinese environment.
However, not necessarily.
Yao Yan once again overturned his judgment.
Due to historical reasons in his previous life, the inferiority caused by the low status of the country was once a cultural atmosphere of respecting foreign things for a very long time.
With the promotion of capital intertwined light and darkness, until the era before his disaster, there were many people named in various works as non-Chinese and European and American names.
Therefore, the spiritual source of this area is not necessarily the people from other areas, but also the "membersmen".
Moreover, in the past, there were many strange figures who regarded the products of technological progress as "Western" and summarized backward things as "Chinese".
It was originally a technological product produced by the pursuit of efficiency, and was named "Western".
And it is also selective to naming and sovereignty claims in certain aspects.
In other things that are local, they will say "this is from the past."
There are too many such people, and many people think they are right.
The study and cracking of realistic laws is given the name of a certain culture and a certain region.
This phenomenon was widely present in his lifetime.
Therefore, Yao Yan could not determine whether these obvious racial characteristics were derived from the general self-knowledge of locals or from the inferiority and admiration-style conceptions of non-locals.
However, there is something more or less that can be used as evidence.
That is "literature".
The documents in "Paradise" are basically non-Chinese.
But what's bad is that Yao Yan saw a lot of "Chinese" grammar in those documents.
In Chinese English, there is no need to say much about this situation.
He could only be sure that among the spiritual sources of this world are his fellow countrymen and his non-Family.
As for who is more and who is less, Yao Yan cannot be sure of it.
Not everything can find a definite and clear answer.
You still need to find the "original paradise" to make a sufficiently accurate judgment.
And now...
Yao Yan stretched out his hand, but his hands and feet were closer to lizards, and his limbs were almost equal to those of equal length:
"Then it's better to take reptiles as the development direction."
He did not intend to let the demon develop freely.
He has a goal, and he needs to develop the power of the demon according to his goals.
And one of the reasons for this idea is...
"Giant Dragon"
During his lifetime, no matter which country or region, a "dragon = the strongest creature" had basically been formed, or at least a "strong creature".
Then, if you let the demon develop into a "dragon" posture, you might be able to get the world view rule that is reflected in the impression.
Through this method, the demons become stronger.
Of course, this method is just one of his expectations, a goal that is being prepared for testing.
His current operation is actually to confirm this.
Then, it should start breeding now.
Yao Yan thought for a moment, followed her memory and found an area that was more suitable for building a stronghold, and then...
Her hair swayed on her head, and it started to bear fruit.
However, these "fruits" are more like the eggs of some kind of reptile creature than the plant fruit-like postures of other demons.
After careful observation, Yao Yan looked towards the direction of the Demonic City.
The demon cannot fully control the genes that he integrates.
Chapter completed!