Thursday, February 3, 2011

Language and Reality

As a grammarian, the role of language for Whitehead was as a mirror that reflected reality. You could partially understand reality by this reflection but the reflection is not the reality. Language is a subset or a flattening of the experience like a mirror that shows two dimensions of a three dimensional world. The limits of language, therefore, are not the limits of reality.


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