Dialectics of Internal and External :: Philosophy Philosophical Papers

Dialectics of Internal and ExternalABSTRACT The central topic of this paper is the analysis of the dialectical interdependency of infixed and extraneous in the theory of language as a symbolic system. Referring to and analyzing the philosophic legacy of W. von Humboldt, B. Russell, L. Wittgenstein, F. de Saussure and G. Spet, the author concludes that the dialectics of internal and external is not an accidental and occasional(a) phenomenon of language. It rather is an intrinsic, ontological trait apart from which an adequate cognition of the essence of language is im workable. Taking the internal pulp as a logical structure, it is possible to view it as something higher and fundamental in language, something that is attainable more by intuition than by research. The internal intellectual base of this grammatical stableness lies in the sphere of purely logical forms. If internal word formulations are related to and governed by the spirit, then the external forms in fact conceal an internal grammatical and syntactic edifice. The laws of external speech functioning are manifested, for example, in bilingualism, which may be viewed either as a social phenomenon related to idiosyncratic thinking and classificatory abilities or as an evidence of the existence of common verbal structures in human consciousness. The author proposes to transfer such linguistic name as bilingualism and contamination into a different context as a way of seeking new topical domains within the linguistic philosophy and the philosophy of language. The empiricism of specific language functioning in the form of bilingual language contamination brings us back to the assumption of the existence of uniform internal metalanguage structures of verbal thinking. The Internal Form as a Language StructureEver since Bertrand Russell, analytical philosophy has searched for an inner logical form of the sentence that could be legitimate with respect to the world. Obviously, the superficial external grammatical form of sentences that we comprehend is a weak expression of the true form of corresponding facts. Poor grammar introduced many a(prenominal) errors in traditional metaphysics disallowing distinctions available exclusively in the new logic. There is a need for a philosophical grammar a grammar, because we speak about the form of the sentences, and philosophical because it should address not only the external but also the internal grammatical structures and reflect their interactions and transmutations thus revealing forms and elements that create the reality of true sentences.A new meaning of philosophy began with Wittgensteins Tractatus.