An amalgamation of quotes and ideas on the nature of language
Words are saturated with time. We are saturated with words for we are temporal beings. Language is not merely a system of semiotics, it doesn't merely represent the world. Rather it constructs it, performs it, creates it and destroys it. It morphs aspects of our reality and forces them to filter through its phonetic and conceptual prisms. If language performs, then the dictionary of all possible words is the cosmos. Welcome to the world of language, the reality in which we live...
Monday, December 6, 2010
The Ultimate Horizon
If phenomenology is precisely the science of the appearing-as-appearing, language is its ultimate horizon: the act of bringing things to light as appearances which does not itself appear as such
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