To what extent does the nature of language illuminate the difference between knowledge of ourselves and knowledge of others?
Title: To what extent does the nature of language illuminate the difference between knowledge of ourselves and knowledge of others?
Category: /Social Sciences/Language & Speech
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To what extent does the nature of language illuminate the difference between knowledge of ourselves and knowledge of others?
Category: /Social Sciences/Language & Speech
Details: Words: 1345 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
More than any other thing, the use of language sets humankind apart from the remainder of the animal kingdom. There is some debate as to where the actual boundary between language and communication should be drawn, however there seems to be no debate as to the nature of Language, which is to communicate, using abstract symbols, the workings of one mind to one or more others with a relatively high degree of accuracy. It could …showed first 75 words of 1345 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1345 total…incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation every human group is a society of island universes." REFERENCES 1) Wittgenstein. L. 1995. Philosophical Investigations. 271.
2) ibid. 384.
3) Huxley. A. 1954. The Doors of Perception. pp3-4.
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