Philosophy Of Language
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Philosophy Of Language
Throughout its history mankind has wondered about his place in the universe. In
fact, second only to the existence of God, this subject is the most frequent
topic of philosophical analysis. However, these two questions are very similar,
to the point that in some philosophical analyses the questions are synonymous.
In these particular philosophies, God takes the form of the universe itself or,
more accurately, the structure and function of the universe. In any case, rather
than conjecturing that God is some omnipotent being, supporters of this
philosophy expound upon another attribute habitually associated with the Man
Upstairs: His omniscience. That particular word, omniscience, is broken down to
semantic components and taken literally: science is the pursuit of knowledge,
and God is the possession of all knowledge. This interpretation seems very
rigorous but has some unfortunate side effects, one of them being that any
pursuit of knowledge is in fact a pursuit to become as God or be a god (lower
case “g”). To avoid this drawback, philosophers frequently say that God is
more accurately described as the knowledge itself, rather than the custody of
it. According to this model, knowledge is the language of the nature, the
“pure language” that defines the structure and function of the universe.
There are many benefits to this approach. Most superficially, classifying the
structure and function of the universe as a language allows us to apply lingual
analysis to the philosophy of God. The benefits, however, go beyond the
superficial. This subtle modification makes the pursuit of knowledge a function
of its usage rather than its pos-session, implying that one who has knowledge
sees the universe in its naked truth. Knowledge becomes a form of enlightenment,
and the search for it becomes more admirable than narcissistic. Another
fortunate by-product of this interpretation is its universal applicability: all
forms of knowledge short of totality are on the way to becoming spiritually fit.
This model of the spiritual universe is in frequent use today because it not
only gives legitimacy to science, but it exalts it to the most high. The
pedantic becomes the cream of the societal crop and scientists become holy men.
It’s completely consistent with the belief that mans ability to attain
knowledge promotes him over every other species on Earth, and it sanctions the
stratification of a society based on scholarship, a mold that has been in use
for ...
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