How Can Language Meaningfully Point to the World:From the Perspective of Relationship Between Language and Things Based on Gadamer
In The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy,Cristina Lafont argues that the contextualism caused by Gadamer's acceptation of theory of indirect reference,may lead to the interruption of cross-language dialogue,so direct referential theory should be accepted.For Gadamer,the answer to this accusation requires a rethinking of the language-world relationship,which involves two aspects.First,we should know that the external relation based on the theory of direct reference isn't the original relationship between language and things.According to Gadamer,a thing becomes itself only if it appears in the language.Language and things are internally interconnected with each other;Second,despite the description of language-thing relationship given above,it doesn't necessarily lead to the interruption of dialogue.As long as the dialogue is derived by the attempts to understanding something,the speaker will necessarily be inclined to listen to others with the recognition that his/her perspective is limited,and this is the way we have a better understanding of the thing we talk about,or in other words,a thing can be constantly constructed through people's discussion of it.This is the endless"game"between things and language.
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