Language, Epistemology, and Signification

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This paper demonstrates the veracity of the following statement: All the other ways of knowing are controlled by language. In order to illustrate that this is in fact the case, the author examines the works of Jacques Derrida, Ludwig Wittgetnstein, and others in order to show that all thought, speech, and discourse is entirely dependent upon language and as such no epistemological framework can exist outside the confines of a linguistic tradition.

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"lAll the other ways of knowing are controlled by language. What does this statement mean with regard to the relationships between perception, emotion, reason, and language? In other words, what does language have to do with the way that human beings understand and interpret the world around them? The above assertion would have us believe that all ways of knowing, or epistemologies, are controlled in some part by language. It means that is impossible to perceive the world without language. It is impossible to experience an emotional response without language."

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