Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Philosophy, Language, Neologicism

Like Russell's 'Definite Description', Wittgenstein's 'Language-Game' is a term coined as a solution to an inadequacy in extant language use.  Thus, each, in the process, escapes from a 'bottle' of Language, in which, hitherto, the resources to illuminate some experience are lacking.  More generally, a sympathetic reading of most, if not all, of the seminal Philosophers throughout history can detect a similarly needful linguistic inventiveness, most of which, usually implicitly, but occasionally explicitly, has influenced ordinary language.  So, in that regard, the relation of Philosophy to ordinary language can be characterized as 'Neologicist'.

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