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Is Language Sufficient to express Human Thought, or is there Thought beyond Language
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Is Language Sufficient to express Human Thought, or is there Thought beyond Language Wittgenstein published a short book in1930, entitled Philosophical Investigations. In this book he looks at language as a series of 'language games'. These consist of guessing riddles, giving orders, cursing, greeting praying etc. Wittgenstein argues that one can use these forms of language provided that a set of predetermined rules is used. In this he explains the rules behind all human forms of language. However, this caused me to ask the question, what role does language play in one's thinking. Do we in fact use these 'language games' in our thinking also, and do we therefore have 'thought games' to describe our thought patterns, or do we simply translate thought into language so naturally that we are unconscious of the process. These are the issues I will attempt to examine in this essay. As a child, we...
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