[Wittrs] Re: Wittgenstein and "Brain Scripts"
- From: "seanwilsonorg" <whoooo26505@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:42:15 -0000
(reply to Stuart)
Meaning as use is being meant in the passage as a compromise between two
pictures. One is thought as a sort of "occult" or ethereal substance (the
little man in the head). The other is thought as behavior only (as automation).
The middle position is that thoughts amount to DEPLOYMENT. The meaning is the
PLAY in the game. The action of language is in the "field of play," so to speak.
Here's the point: it isn't what the body is doing that is central; it is what
the mind does with the idea when using it. Wittgenstein does not deny that the
mind must provide life to words. It's just that the process of providing life
is a kind of "brain behavior." This is an intermediary position.
So the point is not to think, "what is the nature of justice" (or mind) - as
Plato would have asked -- but rather to ask what the expression doing in your
lexicon when you deploy it. Meaning is linguistically archealogical. It means
what it is doing. Whatever signature it leaves "on the ground" is its meaning.
I want to say this: language is as language does. And how language does this is
a function of grammar. And grammar entails social learning and cognition.
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