On the Semantics of the Expression “Making Sense”.

On the Semantics of the Expression “Making Sense”.

 

When we say that something or another “makes sense”, we are referring to Verbal Logic. When we say that something “works”, we are usually referring to a kind of Visual Logic.

This misnomer of attributing the expression “makes sense” to an instance wherein only Visual Logic renders a coherent mental image opens the possibility of a red herring. If one is a post-modernist, for instance, one immediately senses a fallacy. One can then “fall through the cracks” in trying to ascertain whether or not a certain mental construct really, in fact, “makes sense”.

 

If an image is constructed from a text, one then goes to the text in an attempt to interpret the explicit meaning of the text, employing Rationalism to form a coherent picture. In this process, however, one represses the faculty that INTERPRETS language in order to construct an image according to the presumed or extrapolated dictates of the language. One is only concerned with the post-modern deconstruction of sentences, the ultimate fate of trying to employ Verbal Reasoning in such a situation.

1.       One begins by applying Verbal Reasoning to see if a set of sentences “make sense”. (Rationalism.)

2.       One settles upon the AESTHETIC of the coherent verbal reasoning. (Post-modernism.)

3.       One tries to compare this aesthetic to the Mental Construct of the interpretation of this text. (Essentially Dogmatism.)

For this reason, I would say that things need not always to “make sense”, but only to Work.

 

Dm.A.A.