Oakeshott Teaches Us How (and What) to Think, feat. Dale Stenberg | Episode XVIII
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Is There a Necessity of Understanding a Language?
Why do you think that this is a tendency for us in the modern world to approach a understanding or knowledge like this? Whydo we look at the basic understanding of the components, or the basic knowledge of components, as understanding rather than a full appreciation of the thing as it is and its operations and how to use it. If i can parce out my greek conjugations perfectly, but i can't use it in any way other than to describe the parts, why is that particular? Do you think that i have a theory? I mean, there's an interesting line in here. He says, being able to talk about the theory if we want to use that language, u
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