The classical pre-Wittgenstinian theory of language was something almost all of us learned in the elementary grades. The world is the totality of facts, not of things”, then even if he would revisit his theory of language subsequently, the coding theory was debunked forever! Now, we have accepted that our access to the world—to “reality”—is never pure but always mediated, by language, particularly. The praxis of democracy is the institutionalization of inclusiveness, more than it has to do with configuration of governmental power. No one pays serious attention to a troll: She is either paid to troll, or paid to wag.

Source: The Standard September 14, 2017 13:52 UTC