By Susan Hekman
Susan Hekman believes we're witnessing an highbrow sea switch. The major good points of this modification are present in dichotomies among language and truth, discourse and materiality. Hekman proposes that it truly is attainable to discover a extra intimate connection among those pairs, person who doesn't privilege one over the different. through grounding her paintings in feminist proposal and utilizing analytic philosophy, medical concept, and linguistic concept, Hekman indicates how language and fact can be understood as an indissoluble unit. during this greatly man made paintings, she deals a new interpretation of questions of technological know-how, modernism, postmodernism, and feminism for you to construct wisdom of truth and expand how we care for nature and our more and more varied stories of it.
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One of the indications that Wittgenstein is articulating a position far from linguistic constructionism is his discussion of two issues that are highly problematic for this position: color and mathematics. Neither of these issues fits into the understanding of the world posed by linguistic constructionism. Color seems to suggest a primordial sensation that, although described by language, is not encompassed by it. Mathematics, likewise, seems to be connected to the “real” world in a unique way.
He also wants to reject the notion that there is one relation of a name to its object and our goal is to find this one correct relationship (1960:173). But it is important to note that he is not replacing this view with a version of coherentism. He is not defining meaning as internal to language, solely a product of discourse. Rather, he is defining meaning as a product of our activity as human beings engaged in language games. Meaning is tied to use, to something we do. He even asserts that it is in some cases tied to our human nature.
38 The Material of Knowledge This relationship, he concludes, is both arbitrary and not. It is arbitrary in the sense that concepts are conventional—they vary from language to language. But the relationship is not arbitrary in the sense that, as Wittgenstein explains in the case of color, we would not have a concept of red if there were not red things in the world. This understanding of the complicated relationship between language and reality emerges in other aspects of Wittgenstein’s work. In Philosophical Investigations he discusses the practice of weighing.