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Page 464 PHILOSOPHICAL SELF-DENIAL Wittgenstein and the Fear of Public Language Rei âThroughout his life Wittgenstein was convinced that he could not make himself understoodââ so a friend recalls.1 Wittgensteinâs conï¬dence in the stability and public character of language coexisted, it would seem, with a dreadful expectation that he would himself be unintelligible. Commentators who relate Wittgensteinâs psychology or biography to his philosophy often do so by setting them in opposition: by writing his polemic against private language, it is suggested, Wittgenstein fought off a personal susceptibility to myths of romantic solitude. But the assumption of antagonism may not be apt: hard-core belief in the public nature of language and a terror of isolation may well go together. The more public language is, the more awful failures of communication must be. When one can no longer imagine that an utterance retains a meaning independent of its reception, an ineffective utterance matters more. Without an ideal standard, we need only to be generally, not completely, competent; but at the same time, we need only to be generally incompetent to become linguistic pariahs. And for the very reason that oneâs intelligibility is never perfect or ï¬nally destroyed, each exchange counts.
Common Knowledge – Duke University Press
Published: Oct 1, 2002
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