Labelling Things

Labelling things, we do it everyday for a variety of things. In the philosopher  A.J.Ayer's book Language, Truth, and Logic, he talks about language (also meta-ethics) and how our main problem is describing things that our larger than the human realm with human language. Therefore very limited and will always be more basic than the thing you are describing.

From, currently, being addicted to the stats of this blog, I have realised I am unconsciously labelling you my audience and for this I apologise. This was not intentional, this is the flawed quality of the human being.

However sometimes labelling is important as it is a guide to other from your own experience. Example in a simple form is the name of a type of shoe, i.e. an Oxford brogue.

This is a traditional Oxford Brogue, from Church. However where this simplistic labelling is flawed is in the difference of opinion. Example, people may classify the below as an Oxford brogue.

In my opinion, (i.e. the main point of this argument) this is not an Oxford Brogue, I would say this is a rubber jazz shoe, with Brogue details, and that is all.

The Philosopher G.E.Moore (Principia Ethica)also continued this argument asking "what is yellow?" Which is asking an individual how they would describe this colour. Due to different experience and education every answer will be different for two reasons. Reason 1, they have learnt different vocabulary and therefore will use only what they have. And reason 2, the more important one, they will have different opinions on things from other people. This is something wonderful about life, but also frustrating. No two people will think the same, and you can't prescribe your thoughts and ideas to others as they will never be able to understand them as we all have different processors, giving different outcomes.

Thank you if you have read this, this is more me having a discussion out load.

Sophie the sack maker.