To: RightWhale
rw ...
Need your help and insight over here. Are we limited in thinking by our language structure?
13 posted on 05/23/2003 4:28 PM PDT by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
fC ...
Churchill said ...
"1st we build our architectire ---
then our architecture builds (( prisons )) us" !
Language is shorthand (( notation )) ...
but then we forget the translation --- message // theme !
152 posted on
05/24/2003 12:57:43 AM PDT by
f.Christian
(( apocalypsis, from Gr. apokalypsis, from apokalyptein to uncover, from apo- + kalyptein to cover))
To: f.Christian; RightWhale
'Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent'.
Wittgenstein's dictum still holds, unless one is satisfied with speaking nonsense.
IMO.
To: f.Christian; Alamo-Girl; William Terrell
Churchill said ... "1st we build our architectire --- then our architecture builds (( prisons )) us" ! Language is shorthand (( notation )) ... but then we forget the translation --- message // theme ! Excellent observation, fC. Analagous to what WT described as getting used to the miraculous so much that it becomes very difficult to realize it's wonderment.
295 posted on
05/24/2003 7:52:36 PM PDT by
unspun
("Do everything in love.")
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