Friday, January 17, 2014
Description, Prescription, Communication
Three characteristics of a Description are: it is pre-existed by its object, its object is not necessarily human, and it is monological. In contrast, a Prescription pre-exists its object, its object includes a human component, and the latter is explicitly its addressee, i. e. one who is to enact the formulation. In other words, a Prescription, but not a Description, is explicitly a mode of Communciation. Thus, #309 of the Investigations, in contrast with #124, is significant insofar as in it, Wittgenstein defines Philosophy as an act of Communication, i. e. he prescribes to a reader a "way out of the fly-bottle".
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