Sunday, August 29, 2021

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889-1951)... The limits of my language mean the limits of my world... and Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993)... A man with scant vocabulary a weak thinker

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world... Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

Note:
A philosopher, philosophy of mathematics, logician.

Since the rise of mid-20th century Andy Warhol-esque pop culture, language spoken and written have been deluged with adolescent slangs, inordinate expletives, cesspool-ish vernaculars followed by words and terms ignorantly or intentionally redefined, reassigned, recategorized then regurgitated until widespread allowance, acceptance, adoption then adoration. Debates even discussions are presently quite impossible per resulting rife inconsistencies upon persisting rabid idiocies, thereby completely opposite meanings the same word or term when exchanged by two rhetoricians preoccupied by covetously, presumptuously self-aggrandized ramblings. 

Relatedly, the following quote expands further...

"A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing."

Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993)

Note:
A business/economic journalist, writer, truly his hallmark work was his 1964 book The Foundations of Morality, although more known his 1946 book Economics in One Lesson.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

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