Pecha Kucha 4/5 : The Power and Weakness of Words

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Words are terrific, really. If I tell you go to Wittgenstein's house, here's the address, and when you get there, his is the BLUE door, you're set. You've got no questions, you nod, and when you arrive you knock on the correct door.

Slide 5:

But that doesn't mean that the word BLUE is going to always be so helpful. Plato says there is an ideal BLUE out there, but sometimes it's just not that simple, and with a whole host of competing stimuli that all meet the inadequate criteria "is blue," then our minds cannot find that comforting certainty.