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The Limitations of Language

anding? Does it indicate a marveling at the talent of the Artist? My father does not "appreciate" Toni Braxton. I do not "appreciate Mozart. That doesn't mean they are not to be appreciated, it merely indicates that language gamers make the word "appreciation meaningless, and a part of the generation gap.

The concept of language without games is that there are words to "describe everything logically". However, words have limits.

Where the limits of language, world, and science lie, enables one to see the world as a limited whole. Feeling the world as a limited whole is what Wittgenstein called 'mystical'a The mystical is not how the world is but that it is" (Wittgenstein 65).

Wittgenstein's "language games" one might call the "emperor's New Clothes theory", for what he does is strip bare the embellishments of words and reduces them to their absolute bare essentials. Children learn through rudimentary signals, sometimes gestures, sometimes single words. Chances are no child understands the use of an adverb or adjective. "Happy", "sad" are complete thoughts to a child. Since children go through various stages of learning, so language games becomes part of that growing up "Learning is based on believing" (Wittgenstein 167). One does not believe half-heartedly. O

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