From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Sat Jul 05 2003 - 11:42:13 BST
> DBM quotes his "trusty Oxford Companion to Philsophy":
> > "Contrary to the dominant tradition, Wittgenstein argued that language is
> > misrepresented as a vehicle for the communication of language-independent
> > thoughts. Speaking is not a matter of translating wordless thoughts into
> > language, and understanding is not a matter of interpreting - transforming
> > dead signs into living thoughts. The limits of thought are determined by the
> > limits of the expression of thoughts. ... It is not thought that breathes
> > life into the signs of a language, but the use of signs in the stream of
> > human life."
>
>
> this would mean that the 4th level can access DQ only through the 3rd.
Unless you redefine the nature of level 4.
Sam
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