From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 (in)security
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:28:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010702133239.35889199E3@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
>> Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
>>
>> Ludwig Wittgenstein
Anderson: Ah .... I would only like to offer Professor Stone the observation that
language is not the only level of human communication, and perhaps not the most
important level. Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we are by no means silent.
Verbal language is a technical refinement of our capacity for communication,
rather than the fons et origo of that capacity. The likelihood
is that language develops in an ad hoc way, so there is no reason to expect
its development to be logical. [A thought strikes him.] The importance of
language is overrated. It allows me and Professor Stone to show
off a bit, and it is very useful for communicating detail -- but the
important truths are simple and monolithic. The essentials of a given
situation speak for themselves, and language is as capable of obscuring the
truth as of revealing it. ...
``Professional Foul'', Tom Stoppard.
next reply other threads:[~2001-07-02 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-02 13:28 forsyth [this message]
2001-07-02 13:52 ` Jim Choate
2001-07-02 14:16 ` Dan Cross
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2001-07-02 11:56 [9fans] " rob pike
2001-07-02 13:20 ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
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