On the insufficiency of language

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A friend of mine wrote the other day on Facebook: "All positions on G-d are fundamentally irrational

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Good points made, but what I was talking about was somewhat different. I perceive something internally coherent in my understanding of what I denote by the word G-d; however even if we were able to predicate this understanding in a way that facilitated an understanding of the conscious dynamics of it, the fact still remains that there seem to be in this world as many different definitions of the divine as there are people. It seems more relevant when discussing concepts of truth with people to use a specific framing which is understood by both parties, rather than using a term specially set aside for "the infinite" to mean multiple things. Not all people can philosophise about a sole-cause, and may therefore have a more restricted or angular view of a Creator

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There is definitely a physical effect of specific sets of frequencies of light that our eyes register to our brain and that we denote by the word "blue". But here is where language fails us, just as it does in the case of G-d. Multiple different colours are perceived by our brain as being "blue", even under normal conditions of the eye. Admittedly, after effects of light of specific colors can also create blue in our field of vision. But just because this is true, it doesn't deny the fact that there is a real, physical, tangible influence out there which our brains register and denote as blue