Wittgenstein
In Our Time: Philosophy
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The Relationship Between Language and Reality
Bickenstein's picture theory is that somewhere near the middle of what he was doing, maybe i can try to do two things at once. Bickenstein sees a relationship between language and reality that goes something like this: If we've got a language which described all the arrangements of things in the world and all the facts of the world,. Now you describe all the possible ways the world could be, not just the way it actually is, but all the Possible ways it could be. Language, then, in describing all the possibilities there are, describes the limits of reality. So the limits of language and the limits ofreality and the boundariesf of what's intelligible are the boundaries of
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