Quote 5

Posted by Genjo on November 1st, 2008 filed in Quotes

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Only language can make connections because only language divides; nature is above both.

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Definitions are maintained by common consent; meaning by individual dissent from the norms of definition.

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Language is a defective tool for acquiring knowledge of the world - it can only be used for acquiring knowledge of itself, to extend itself. Language is only indirectly related to the existential world - and that relation itself is linguistic. (1950)