The medium of thought, meaning, and shared life.
Greek
λόγος (logos)
Chinese
名 (míng, names)
Sanskrit
śabda / vāc
Plato’s Cratylus asks whether names are natural or conventional.
The rectification of names (zhengming) holds that social order depends on words matching realities.
Wittgenstein locates meaning in use within a form of life.
Where do these traditions agree, and where do they genuinely part? Open the editor to write the comparison in your own words.
An LLM learns language purely from use and represents meaning as geometry — a working experiment in Wittgenstein’s intuition.
Defined plainly: LLM · Stochastic Parrot