29.3
455. Every language game is based on words
‘and objects’ being recognized again. We learn with the same inexorability that
this is a chair as that 2 x 2 = 4.
recognition is an exercise in uncertainty –
in any act of recognition –
you are faced with question of how to
describe –
you may have a description that you think
will be useful –
but there is no certainty there –
always you have to decide – which
description – if any –
of any number of possible descriptions –
best fits the circumstances – will be most
useful –
and in a final sense – you don’t know with any certainty –
what will and will not work –
but you take a stab – you proceed –
in uncertainty
‘this is a chair’ – is one possible
description of a sate of affairs –
a state of affairs that without description
– is unknown
if it’s a useful description –
it is likely that you will consider using
it again
2 x 2 = 4 – is a language game of
substitution –
and if you learn how to play the game –
you can play it any number of times –
what we are talking about here is repetition –
not inexorability
© greg t. charlton. 2010.
