Every symbol, picture, or icon that enters your mind must be converted into lexical form or the symbol cannot be understood. When Joseph sees this batch of symbols in his dream his lexical index automatically says, this is me and my brothers - field - wheat sheaves. In other words the symbols in this dream have immediate context because he is able to link these symbols to language. Had he not known what wheat was or what a sheave of wheat looked like he could have had no point of reference to understand what he saw. Even though he comprehends all of the symbols within the dream he does not yet understand the meaning of the dream itself because this information was offered as part of the dream. That remained unrevealed information.
Textual conditions vs The sensible horizon
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what? Im not sure you have a real biblical position in your logic here? First im not sure exactly what your saying and sure don't see a related biblical point? So i give up! God Bless 
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No the bible itself tells you that creation is a witness of the Creator and its the Holy Spirit that teaches us about God...of Course the Word is written by the Holy Spirit, but the Spirit itself bears witness with our spirits.
Ro 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Ro 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
I certainly agree with this. I just wanted you to say it. What does the Bible say about what the heavens convey? The ideas that creation conveys are translated into a batch of symbols that we call words (that's all a word is. It is a symbol that represents an object or an idea). The idea conveyed by the heavens is represented by a particular set of words/symbols such as - God, wisdom, power, creator, etc.... Without the capacity to link language to the information you would have absolutely no idea what message was being declared by creation. Your mind does this automatically. You cannot prevent it.
Our minds are not trained this way, they are created to function in this way. It is impossible for your thought process to exceed your command of language. It is impossible for you to convey a thought that you do not have the vocabulary to describe. Do not confuse the mind with the brain. Contrary to leading scientific opinion, these are not the same thing. Chemical process take place in the brain, not in the mind.
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Look I willing to listen about your thoughts on this issue, I think its interesting ...but I don't see you as an expert on the mind and brain...I have some knowledge of those issues and have several books that I have studied that would refute what your saying , written by folks who have knowledge of the science of the brain and its connection to the heart to form the mind.
So how does all of this collective information of the nine fields of inquiry stack up against what scripture says about how man was created. Are these the same group of intellectuals who give is things like evolutionary theory and Freudian logic. I have probably read many of those books myself. I really do not care what the collective of socially engineered knowledge has to say about scripture but I am quite interested in what scripture has to say about the accumulated knowledge of the nine fields of inquiry.