the limits of language
“This is the game we play: The only thing you really know is what you can put into words.”
– Alan Watts
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein (April 26, 1889–April 29, 1951) an Austrian-born philosopher who spent most of his life in England, including teaching at Cambridge.
1984
The aim of newspeak is to make speech independent of consciousness as much as possible and consequently, it would be virtually impossible to say anything that goes against the Party
How does Language Shape the Way We Think? Read 1984 and You’ll Understand
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