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[languagedeath]

Knowing One North Frisian Language Doesn't Mean Knowing All

Knowing One North Frisian Language Doesn’t Mean Knowing All

Written by Dyami Millarson I am still this boy. He represents my true self; he is my soul. When I was selecting North Frisian books in the antiquarian bookstore on Saturday 2 April, the following train of thought raced through my mind: Suppose someone bought one of these North Frisian books and studied the North Frisian of that book diligently, they would still not know the North Frisian of…

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[mynameisnotthepoint]

Nun herrscht bekanntlich der Eindruck vor, daß die Dinge bei einer Aussage, also einer konstatierenden Äußerung ganz anders lägen. Jeder Beliebige kann alles Beliebige aussagen. Und wenn er falsch informiert ist? Ja nun, man kann sich irren, das ist alles. Wir genießen doch Meinungsfreiheit und auszusagen, was falsch ist, zählt zu den Menschenrechten. Allerdings kann dieser Eindruck zu Fehlschlüssen führen. Keine Erfahrung is in Wahrheit alltäglicher, als daß man über irgendeine Sache absolut nichts aussagen kann, weil man einfach nicht imstande ist, auch nur irgendeine Aussage zu machen – und das aus mancherlei Gründen.

J. L. Austin (1958), ‘Performative Äußerung’ in Ludger Hoffmann (Hrsg.) (1996), Sprachwissenschaft: Ein Reader.

[philosophy-student]

First weeks

At home with a massive tummy-bug is never fun, but it is even more annoying when there’s loads to be done! I still have to finish a memo for Psycholinguistics on how children acquire language and a paper proposal for Philosophical Anthropology!  I am enjoying psycholinguists, but it is quite easy. It seems with my background in Language Philosophy a lot of what is being taught has already been mentioned (and oftentimes disputed) in previous courses I’ve taken, but we’ll see how it goes!

Philosophy of Emotions has proven to be a difficult situation but I’ve decided to stick to my guns and write about “Hope”. It seemed a better idea than a negative emotion seeing as I am to become quite familiar with it over the next couple of months!

I have started reading The Ethics Of What We Eat for my CC1 course and am thoroughly enjoying that. And now it is time to shower to see if my sinuses will clear a teeny tiny bit! Have a lovely Sunday evening!

[belatona]

This is a ‘things don’t have properties separate from the entities in which they appear‘ theory

Me trying to understand Wittgenstein.

[hipsterschaap]

Ludwig Wittgenstein, extremely controversial and kind of brilliant.