/lit/ - Literature

>>1846797

>>1725589
3/10
You get points for taking out new critical voices for a test drive, but you lose points for samefagging in >>1725595


This anon has the right idea: >>1725641, "language is symbolic, not recursive". This is to say, as a symbol, language both points toward itself (the insight of structuralists and post-structuralists) but also points away from itself (the insight of people like Bloom and Fish who focus on the social and psychological affects of language).

I think what bothers you is the fact that the dynamics of language put it under troubling limitations. Because it points toward itself (meaning arises from a internecine "warring chain of signifiers" as Derrida put it), it can never be an unmediated medium of truth and reality. Yet, you go too far in arguing that this is evidence of the nonexistence of all things. Lack of evidence is not evidence of lack, to crib something that comes up again and again in atheist vs theist debates. And obviously, to follow up my point, you go too far in arguing that because language is subject to exacting limitations, it conveys nothing but itself.

>>1702537

That's nice.