Reality cannot be captured in language.
We aspire to the real in our use of language but the Real is a point of impossible contradiction.
Reality is not an ontological (nature of being) absolute made up of isolated elements in language which we cohere into meaningful reality and this reality is then lodged somehow and somewhere in Euclidean space (ordinary two- or three-dimensional space).
So what is our reality then if it is not in the language we use?
It is the the entire constellation of beliefs, values, truths, techniques and so on shared by the members of a given community, a consensus of what reality is is then conveyed to us and we are loud hailered, megaphoned by culture and capitalism into a belief system which we deem to be reality
Yet the question must be asked are we then no more than the dupes of discourse.,
As Wittgenstien pointed out 'to learn a language is to learn a set of rules or laws.' for the use and combination of words. Accordingly, for him too, “learning is based on believing” (Wittgenstein).
To be duped by discourse is to accept the unconditional authority of a body of convention
As Wittgenstien pointed out 'to learn a language is to learn a set of rules or laws.' for the use and combination of words. Accordingly, for him too, “learning is based on believing” (Wittgenstein).
To be duped by discourse is to accept the unconditional authority of a body of convention
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