{"id":782,"date":"2018-10-01T23:38:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T04:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/?p=782"},"modified":"2018-10-01T23:38:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T04:38:10","slug":"limits-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/2018\/10\/01\/limits-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Limits of language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although math, logic, and language are very useful, I no longer think metaphysics really possible. I think however we need metaphors. We need some way to think about the world. Math, logic and language are the best tools we have to arrive at these metaphors. I am still trying to understand Principia Mathematica (by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell) better. Also I want to especially study Whitehead more &#8211; especially his middle period more.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although math, logic, and language are very useful, I no longer think metaphysics really possible. I think however we need metaphors. We need some way to think about the world. Math, logic and language are the best tools we have to arrive at these metaphors. I am still trying to&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/2018\/10\/01\/limits-of-language\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}