Vernacular Lanugage

Posted on September 27, 2009
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“Vernacular language is simply too infused with human-centered metaphor…” Interesting discussion relative to speculative realism. While positivism gets a lot of scorn (much deserved) the one thing it did do, I think, it try to cut down to a language less tied to such metaphors. Of course it couldn’t ultimately escape human metaphor which I think our cognition is infused with at a very deep evolutionary level. i.e. it’s inescapable. But so long as you aren’t seeking absolutes then finding language which is better is indeed worth the trouble.

Philosophers are just want to push things to extremes too much. (As i think both the positivists and their critics tended to do) The search for a language of natural kinds is worthwhile even if it is ultimately futile.