If a lion could talk we could not understand him-Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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I still wonder what the quote is from.

A lion can talk. A lion does talk. We can understand a little of it. Though, clearly, not much.

As in 'Grr, I'm going to bite you'?  You know they mostly bite non-Christians.

[opebo]

The point is that we can not understand the lion because we do not understand the context that he is speaking in. Humans have never been put in a zoo, or lived the life of a lion.

Yeah everybody understands that.  But we do share lots of experiences.  I for example have eaten raw meat, and I loved it.

[opebo]

The point is that we can not understand the lion because we do not understand the context that he is speaking in. Humans have never been put in a zoo, or lived the life of a lion.

Yeah everybody understands that.  But we do share lots of experiences.  I for example have eaten raw meat, and I loved it.

you are claiming  that sharing a common experience is what can bond us, but one could simply claim that "isn’t it that our instinct tells us that lions could not have any conceivable share in our world?". This is because lion does not live on the same intellectual plain and humans do, and thus it may be impossible to understand the lion.

I'm extremely skeptical of claims that human's 'intellectual plane' is so very different from animals.