'The limits of my language mean the limits of my world” This statement boldly expresses that knowledge of language is a direct determination of knowledge itself and the world. There is no perfect language that expresses every thought, feeling, idea, creation, or every single thing under the sun. Even in collaboration with every language it is not possible for the language to determine only its own complete noetic structure of the world; however, it is the most important tool for communicating thoughts. Without language nothing could be communicated or even achieved. Language surprisingly facilitates connections from person to person, from culture to culture, and from nation to nation. Wittgenstein developed theories about how language connects a person to the world. Having two main philosophies of language, Wittgenstein shows the indefinite complexity of how language is imperative to philosophy, knowledge and understanding. His early works were born from the desire to give a factual structure to language, influenced mainly by his mathematical and logical background. This led him to equate pictorial meaning with language, and although he himself abandoned his previous school of thought and adopted a new one based on opposing principles, his quest to expand knowledge of language became a complex but significant in the way language is analyzed today. A brief synopsis of both seems to highlight the multiple expressions of language and each factor in the true acquisition of knowledge regarding one's world. Language is essential to the system of communication between humans to ensure vitality and therefore its very form is innate. Forms of language can be exemplified through speech, body, sensations and sounds... at the center of the card... actors encapsulate to establish a measure that adheres to limits or infinity. Life is determined by factors greater than language itself. Acquiring an understanding of the world itself should never be limited by language but could never be achieved without a great understanding of it. Unfortunately, it has been the general consensus of many and as Gary Willis states in “Certainty Trumpets; A Call of Leaders,” “Wittgenstein succeeded as a thinker almost in proportion to his failure in life. “ It would seem that Wittgenstein has given us what he could not give to himself. Work Cited Grayling, A. C. Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001.Print.Hacker, PMS Wittgenstein. New York: Routledge, 1999. Print.Wills, Garry. Some trumpets: the call of the leaders. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. Print.
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