On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Aatu Koskensilta wrote:
> William Elliot wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Aatu Koskensilta wrote:
> >
> >> As we all know, it was comrade Stalin's brilliant and objective
article
> >> _Marxism and linguistics_ in 1951 (IIRC) that established
conclusively
> >> that language is not a part of the superstructure, and hence formal
> >> logic is a legitimate non-ideological discipline.
> >
> > What's the superstructure?
>
> According to the Marxist-Leninist doctrine the superstructure of the
> society, comprising ideology, politics and what not, is determined by
> the economic relations of production, the substructure.
>
The renown linguist Noam Chomsky shows how crucial his discipline is to
propaganda, ie ideology.
> >> "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, daruber muss man schweigen"
> >> - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
> >
> > If it's worth quoting, is it worth translating?
>
> Ogden translates the seventh clause in Tractatus as
>
> Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
>
Turn off the TV, pull out the cable, push over the satellite dish,
for those who whereof cannot speak, thereof must be silent.
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