The Limits of Language

‘The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”

This statement boldly expresses that knowledge of language is a direct determination of knowledge itself and the world. There is no perfect language that expresses every thought, sensation, idea, creation or every single thing under the sun. Not even in collaboration with every language is it possible for language to only determine one’s complete noetic structure of the world; however, it is the most important tool at communicating the thoughts. Without language, nothing could be communicated, moreover, accomplished. Language amazingly facilitates person-to-person, culture-to-culture and nation-to-nation connections.

Wittgenstein developed theories on how language connects a person to the world. Having two principle philosophies of language, Wittgenstein shows the indefinite complexity of how language is imperative to philosophy, knowledge and understanding. His first works were birth from a desire to achieve factual structure to language, which was influenced mainly by his mathematical and logical background. This lead him to equate a pictorial meaning to language and although, he himself abandoned his earlier school of thought and adopted a new one based on opposing principles, his quest to expand knowledge of language has become an intricate yet significant part in the way language is analyzed today. A brief synopsis of both seem to point out there multiple expressions of language and each factor into true acquisition of knowledge as it pertains to one’s world.

Language is essential to the communication system between humans to ensure vitality and therefore its very form is innate. The forms of language can be exemplified through speech, the body, sensation and sounds...

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...actors encapsulates to set a measure that adheres to limitations or infinity.

Life is determined by factors greater than language itself. In gaining understanding of the world itself should never be limited by language but could never be achieved without a great understanding of it. Sadly, it has been the general consensus of many and as Gary Willis states in, “Certainty Trumpets; A Call of Leaders”, “Wittgenstein succeeded as a thinker almost in proportion to his failure at life. “ It would seem that Wittgenstein gave to us what he could not give to himself.

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