Friday, April 18, 2014

We, Communication, Philosophy of Language

Insofar as Communication entails commonality, e. g. vocabulary, it is a We activity.  Likewise, abusive language, lying, and irony are all examples of divisive language designed to undo a We.  So, Leibniz' vision of universal communication is that of the establishment of a universal We, and, hence, is essentially a Moral ideal.  Thus. despite the prevailing classification of it as a topic in Logic, Philosophy of Language is fundamentally a Moral problem.  Likewise, any effort of Logicists to depersonalize Language, e. g. the reduction of all Language to 'objective' Propositions, the exclusion of 'Propositional attitudes', is a manoeuvre that is subject to Moral judgment.

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