For how can I go so far as to try to use language to get between pain and its expression?
* F. Picabia – Abstract Composition
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For how can I go so far as to try to use language to get between pain and its expression?
* F. Picabia – Abstract Composition
…language is a virus from outer space – William S. Burroughs
perfect!
It’s the longest and the shortest way…
Language gives expression to our mundane lives. The pinnacle of our very exsistence.
That’s right. I wonder, however, would we need it if we could ‘talk with images’
Intriguing!
poor old Ludwig always is
“Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.” (Philosophical Investigations, 18) -my favourite image of language, I think, bringing out the way it develops: organically at first, then increasingly subject to formal regulation, but with the old and new bits existing alongside one another.
yes, if I didnt know he wrote that, I’d though about Jorge Borges. That’s way better than Quine saying our everyday language was born of sin and is to be saved by science and logic
Was just starting to learn a little about Mr. W. (In a bio of David Foster Wallace, that I didn’t get very far with….)
Intetesting topics.
Thanks for visiting 🙂
Diana
This bio is my urging have-to-read problem, don’t remind me :>
Was Wittgenstein the best of them all? Yes, probably.
I don’t know, but he was so cyptic, thousand people colud make thousand philosophies from his writings. There is a dreamy myth there, behind the thin wall of strict logic
Certainly the best since Plato, they say.
Thanks for liking my post. Did consciousness create language or does language create consciousness?
Writing through the pain, I shall, now, also follow your blog!
:> thanks, join in
Language helps us get through life but I don’t think people actually understand what anyone else is saying. Language, like art, is specific to the person using or viewing it.
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