[lit-ideas] Must the World Be Illiterate? (Was: Must the Word be Literate?
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:44:57 EDT
McCreery writes of
>the search for a perfect language extends is characteristic
>of modern philosophy from Leibniz to the early Wittgenstein (the one
>who wrote the Tractatus).
-- and a very literate book, it is too, unlike his later (the 'later
Wittgenstein') who later wrote the rather illiterate "Philosophical
Investigations"
(in German outbursts to his amanuensis, Mrs. Geach).
Geary says that yes, the word must be literate.
I agree, 'literate' is from 'letter' and letters have representations in
phonic terms. There is no way of conceiving a word that can not be rendered
_literate_. On the other hand Third-World sociologists keep talking of how
illiterate the Third World is getting. By which they mean that they misspell.
In Spanish, 'illiteracy" translates as 'alfabetismo' (knowing your ABC),
which simplified the world wonders for Eva Peron.
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