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No mention of Wittgenstein, and the argument for the impossibility of a private language. All that material in Philosophical Investigations on how natural langu
by osullivj 9y ago
No mention of Wittgenstein, and the argument for the impossibility of a private language. All that material in Philosophical Investigations on how natural language is game like, and an essentially social practice, is highly relevant.
- user51442 9y agoOr Heidegger, 'being-in-the-world-with-others' & all that.
- user51442 9y agoHeidegger doesn't seem too far from the mark, judging by Andy Clark's 1997 "Being There": http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/BeingThere.AClark1998.EntireBook.pdf http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/BeingThere.AClark1998.... The title even seems to be a nod to Heidegger's "dasein" (as well as to Woody Allen).
- telesilla 9y agoCompletely agreed. I write music, and even that is decipherable - not as coherently as words, but it's a fairly direct form of communication of a kind of thought: when people ask "what does it mean" the answer is always "whatever it makes you think about". Same as words, really, or "the brain had ideas of its own about what the world was like" as Clark determines. The contents of this article don't surprise me at all.