For this weekly check-in, read the fifth chapter, “The Meaning of Words,” on pp. 38-46 in your book What Does It All Mean? by Thomas Nagel.
Correctional facilities and your thoughts on how they are run. Are they effective? If not, why not? Advantages, disadvantages and if we started re-building them, what would you propose they look like? How would you recommend we run them? What is the cu
November 30, 2020Use your own words to summarize each of the following chapter. – Cha. 2 : Bioenergetics – Cha. 8 : Cardio-respiratory responses – Cha. 11 : Adaptations to aerobic and anaerobic training
November 30, 2020For this weekly check-in, read the fifth chapter, “The Meaning of Words,” on pp. 38-46 in your book What Does It All Mean? by Thomas Nagel.
At the end of this chapter, Nagel says:
The problem is to explain how this is possible: How does anything we say or write mean anything — including all the words in this book?
For your original thread, do your best to answer his question. What does “meaning” amount to? How is language “connected to” reality? How do words represent the things they refer to? If you are not sure at this point, think back to what you must have assumed about meaning before you read this chapter. How do you think you would have defined “meaning” if you had been asked to do so then?
