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Were you refering to Wittgenstein with your words about 'the nature of language'? The man who used words to strip all words of their meaning? And " raison d'etre " of humanity; I'm one of the pessimists who are convinced that that will never be found.
Very good, BranShea, you touched upon the two most salient points.
Wittgenstein was right when he kinda said that words have no meaning.
Words don't have meaning; words have function. Words can't explain how "something" came from "nothing", but words can direct the user towards an understanding of the likelihood of positive or negative events occurring that affect the continuation of the breeding group.
For example the "word-idea" that effected the increase in the number of students in the schools in your country was likely unrelated to the subsequent growth of the administrative bureaucracy. Like lawyers and politicians a bureaucracy has no conceptual design to grow fat and cumbersome and inept. They are simply people with like minded aims who unknowingly act in concert against the common good and then rationlize the poor results.
All human Cultures are, by their very nature, prone to a similar fate.
WORDS HAVE NO ABSOLUTE MEANING; WORDS ONLY HAVE A FUNCTION WITHIN A SET.
Last edited by themilum; 11/26/06 12:00 PM.
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