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Language as Limit

Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that the limits of language are the limits of the world, not as metaphor but as structural fact: what cannot be said cannot be thought in any stable form. Bertrand Russell pursued logical atomism to anchor meaning in precise correspondence, seeking a syntax that could mirror reality without residue. Charles Sanders Peirce […]

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Philosophical Alienation

Consciousness entails perspectival isolation. Subjective experience is necessarily local, bounded by the fact that one mind does not have direct access to another. Philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and cognitive science converge on this constraint, whether framed as first-person authority, privacy of qualia, or irreducible point of view. Language does not remove this barrier. It operationalises […]