Steven Pinker & Wittgenstein

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1. An imaginary conversation between Wittgenstein and Pinker would be interesting. Wittgenstein posits that it is impossible to find a mental state from which we can understand what is happening in language, Pinker of course has his ideas on the human brain being partly, intrinsically language oriented. The last comments you make about nostalgia are interesting, what would either of these two men have to say about a piece of music by Eric Satie or a picture by Turner…. Its impossible sometimes to say anything meaningful about the state of mind that can arise from a non verbal experience and yet such an experience undeniably affects our use of language.

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