Re: Ipv direct bewijs te eisen, indicaties kunnen waarderen omdat dat duidelijk verschilt van helemaal geen indicaties
Geplaatst: 06 sep 2024 17:49
Misschien in de context van deze discussie interessant, een passage uit een nogal ludieke biografie van Wittgenstein die ik een tijd terug las.
"The curiosity of language is that it claims no existence for itself, and that it does this by teaching it only ever stands in for things which are themselves what actually exists. It therefore claims an essential invisibility for itself. It seeks total and seamless identity with the discourse of existence and the God-valence of things. And yet it appears that on the close, Wittgensteinian analysis, it is not so innocent as this—That it may actually create what it stands in for. I am saying that if you want to incorporate the whole of Wittgenstein’s philosophy into a single preoccupation, then this would be it: to make what pretends to be invisible in language visible. To show it is impossible to determine which came first, the word or the thing the word stands for. And, finally, to show how this means that as readers—that as the reading animals (alone of all the animals)—we are never actually included (in the way that Hobbes thought we could be included) in the private business of language. Language is always hypothetical. Language only ever shows you how things would look if language were used. Language only exists because there exists also the total alternative to language, to the World of Language, to the World of Syntax and Sense. I have described this ‘total alternative’ as like waking up from the dream."
Miles Hollingworth, Ludwig Wittgenstein