Crow's Paradise

Chapter 222 Literal meaning and presupposition

The words "chameleon" and "chameleon" themselves are a common way of naming biological characteristics.

But there is a problem.

worldview of this world.

People's naming of things is related to impressions.

Because of the "meaning" of its naming, people's experience, logic, and thinking inertia can easily lead to meaningless meanings.

Because "literary meaning" leads to an impression that is inconsistent with the facts.

For example, if you don't understand "efficiency", at first glance, would you think that the core of this "ism" is "efficiency"?

However, various associations arise, resulting in communication problems like chicken talking to duck.

Especially in "philosophy".

Many schools of philosophy attach great importance to the naming and conceptual interpretation of a word.

The same word can appear very different in different schools of philosophy.

Ordinary people often interpret the concept corresponding to a word by themselves because the meaning is taken literally, and then communicate with others based on the result of this interpretation.

To take an extreme example, "sofa", if explained completely according to the Chinese meaning, it may mean hair like sand, and by extension, it may also mean hair as rough as sand or hair as fine as sand.

Or something similar to the shape of hair appears in the desert sand.

Yao Yan experienced many times when the two sides were arguing with each other, but in the end they found that what they were talking about was not the same thing at all.

However, it is often difficult for people to realize this.

He even met several "top students" majoring in psychology, but none of them had any knowledge in this area.

As for the reason?

Perhaps Yaoyan's own assumptions about "psychology" were too high and he thought that the other party would understand it. In fact, the other party did not learn this knowledge in "psychology".

This is knowledge in the semantic-pragmatic category. Although it is related to psychology, it is not a branch directly under it.

A word that is closely related to "literally meaning" is "default".

Yao Yan is now doubting that the spiritual source of this world is individuals from the Chinese environment.

However, he soon overturned this inference.

Because he did not know the common names of "chameleon" and "chameleon" in other language environments outside the country where he was alive.

For example, the creature corresponding to the scientific name of the chameleon lizard is called "thunder male dog", "thunder male snake" and "thunder male horse" in the local slang where it lives.

As for the name "Thunder Snake", in addition to the legend that after being bitten, it thundered before releasing its mouth, it is related to "Thunder Snake". "Snake" can be understood to be related to the body shape.

But what about the thundering male dog and the thundering male horse?

Yaoyan did not know the origin of the terms "dog" and "horse".

Maybe it has something to do with dialect pronunciation.

Likewise, the English and Latin names he knew were scientific names, not common names.

It cannot be simply concluded to be a product of the Chinese environment.

However, there is other evidence.

Those are names such as "Ligil", "Kari", and "Sigrit".

These names are all transliterations, but in their original language environment, these titles themselves have meaning and have original sources.

For example, Ailon is related to the meaning of mountains and divine enlightenment.

These words and naming methods are not products of the Chinese environment.

However, not necessarily.

Yao Yan once again overturned his previous judgment.

In his previous life, due to historical reasons and low self-esteem caused by his low status in the country, his country once had a cultural atmosphere that respected foreign things for a very long time.

Coupled with the bright and dark propaganda of capital, until the era before his disaster, there were many characters named with non-Chinese and European and American titles in various works.

Therefore, the spiritual source of this area is not necessarily people from other areas, but may also be his "fellow townspeople".

Moreover, in previous generations, there were many strange people who regarded the products of scientific and technological progress as "Western" and classified all backward things as "Chinese".

Originally a technological product produced in pursuit of efficiency, it was given the name "West".

Moreover, they still selectively name and claim sovereignty in certain aspects.

For other things that are of local origin, they say "that's all in the past."

There are too many people like this, and many people think they are right.

The research and cracking of the laws of reality is given the name of a certain culture and a certain region.

This phenomenon existed widely during his lifetime.

Therefore, Yao Yan could not determine whether these obvious racial characteristics originated from the local people's general self-understanding, or from the inferiority complex and admiration-like conception of non-native people.

However, there is one thing that can serve as more or less evidence.

That is "documentation".

The documents in "Paradise" are basically in non-Chinese characters.

However, the worst thing is that Yaoyan saw a lot of "Chinese-style" grammar in those documents.

In Chinese English, there is no need to say more about this situation.

He could only be sure that among the spiritual sources of this world, there were some from his hometown and some from those who were not from his hometown.

As for who is more and who is less, Yao Yan could not determine.

Not everything has a definite and clear answer.

We still need to find the "original paradise" to make a sufficiently accurate judgment.

And now.

Yao Yan stretched out his hand. The outline of this humanoid was closer to that of a lizard, and the limbs were almost the same length:

"Then let's take reptiles as the direction of development."

He had no intention of letting this demon develop freely.

He has a goal, and he needs to develop the demon power according to his own goal.

And one of the reasons for this idea is...

"dragon"

In the era when he was alive, no matter which country or region he was in, "dragon = the strongest creature" had basically been formed, or at least a "powerful creature".

Then, if you let the demon develop into the posture of a "dragon", you might be able to take advantage of the worldview rules of this impression mapping.

Through this method, the demon becomes stronger.

Of course, this method is just an idea of ​​his, a target he is preparing to test.

His current operation is actually to confirm this.

Well, now is the time to start breeding.

Yao Yan thought for a moment, followed her memory, and found an area that was more suitable for establishing a stronghold, and then

The swaying hair on her head began to bear fruit.

However, these "fruits" are more like the eggs of some kind of reptile than the fruit-like shapes of other demons.

After Yao Yan observed carefully, he looked in the direction of Demon City.

Demons are not able to completely directional control their integrated genes.

However, if you cooperate with the "Shadow Shadow Crow", it should be possible.

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