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Language was not a constitute of thought at the most fundamental levels, but that thought was in some immediate sense-preverbal, and that its essential forms must there be embodied in the structure of all intelligible language. ~ Schopenhauer

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 Dinesh
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The attempt to extend our understanding of experience and its structure, and hence th world and its structure, through a close investigation into the workings of language -- and this has been the dominant feature of the twentieth-century philosophyin the English speaking world -- is obviously an enterprise which is deeply rooted in these considerations, and is therefore profoundly Kantian in character, even when not self-consciously so. It is not mere happenstance* that the outstanding figure in the history of linguistic philosophy, Wittgenstein, was more influenced by Schopenhauer than by any other philosopher (see Appendix 3) The deep-lying Kantianism that pervades his work was derived directly from Schopenhauer. ‘From Spinoza, Hume and Kant he said that he could get only occasional glimpses of understanding.’ The various frameworks, linguistic and otherwise, in terms of which humans interpret the world and conduct their transactions with it have become central to other forms of enquiry too: those of linguistics, obviously, and also those of psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists. One way and another, this way of thinking can be said to be among the chief intellectual preoccupations of our age. And the fact that there is no longer believed to be one single view of reality whose validation is even in principle possible raises the deepest philosophical problems in all. ~ Page 233
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Languages, dialects, and accents are the most studied, and perhaps the most potent, human markers. Most societies, and many ethnicities such as Jews or the Basques, have their own language, or version of a language. The evolutionary Linguistic Mark Pagel writes of the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, in which God gives people different languages to prevent them from uniting to build a tower tall enough to reach heaven: the irony of this story, Pagel points out, is that “language exists to stop us from communicating,” above and beyond the vast differences between languages, every language offers words that describe its own speakers and how they see themselves – and words that portray those who belong to different societies. Labels matter, including the names of societies themselves, which possess “phenomenal power,” as one African scholar argues; even six-year old-olds prefer kids whom they are told ar from their country. . . . . page 96

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