Well, the problem of that which transcends language is something 20th century philosophy, especially continental philosophy, fixates on, so I'm not unaware of the problem.
You seem to be operating from the assumption that everything is sitting out there waiting to be named--so that "Idea that has not been expressed yet, You'll be great I bet" isn't actually about the referent you had in mind. And that's an ideological assumption--as all statements about everything inevitably are.
And that's why everything-statements are useful and meaningful: they provide the premises from which everything follows. (OMG, I just resurrected the synthetic a priori, didn't I?) (Just kidding. It was never dead for me. Just . . . contingent.)
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Date: 2008-02-23 07:33 pm (UTC)You seem to be operating from the assumption that everything is sitting out there waiting to be named--so that "Idea that has not been expressed yet, You'll be great I bet" isn't actually about the referent you had in mind. And that's an ideological assumption--as all statements about everything inevitably are.
And that's why everything-statements are useful and meaningful: they provide the premises from which everything follows. (OMG, I just resurrected the synthetic a priori, didn't I?) (Just kidding. It was never dead for me. Just . . . contingent.)