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<===3 What does that mean, huh? Language shapes the world, and yet even with these characters I can paint a picture that escapes them. Not only does nature o
by DiscourseFan 3y ago
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What does that mean, huh?
Language shapes the world, and yet even with these characters I can paint a picture that escapes them.
Not only does nature over reach language, even art does. What are great works of art except those most sublime objects which always provoke more interpretation, more words, because they are like black holes of meaning, or maybe more than that. They are more than what we can understand in language alone. And if humans have the capacity to create, through their own genius, or even with the assistance of an AI, something that escapes the rationality of regular language use: if even one person can do that, then language can never be the end all be all. But neither can the "normal" world, the world that "makes sense," because it is precisely "making sense" that proves the primacy of the Word. It is when we fail to make sense, when we disturb and confuse, when sense-making spirals out of control, that we escape language--it is only when the whole world threatens to collapse that we approach the Real.