In the article "Language and Meaning" I started to articulate holism, in an intentionally vague way. The question left unanswered at the end of that piece was where the boundary between the name and the thing named lies. At what point does what we think of as pure or conceptual thought, the pre-linguistic, become language? Is the separation between the two intelligible upon analysis? These are questions that suffuse the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most fascinating and thought-provoking thinkers I have encountered. In this piece I will go through his Private Language Argument (PLA) and its implications, which touches on meaning, language, metaphysics, mind and experience
I presume the evoked question, "Should we not be satisfied with having grasped the limits of these disciplines?" highlights an intriguing implicit premise: that knowing the limits actually strengthens whatever is being examined, since limitation constitutes knowledge of what is being constrained.
As always, great read, Severin.
I presume the evoked question, "Should we not be satisfied with having grasped the limits of these disciplines?" highlights an intriguing implicit premise: that knowing the limits actually strengthens whatever is being examined, since limitation constitutes knowledge of what is being constrained.