Dialectics of Internal and External :: Philosophy Philosophical Papers

Dialectics of Internal and ExternalABSTRACT The central topic of this melodic theme is the analysis of the dialectical interdependency of inseparable and external 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 seed concludes that the dialectics of internal and external is not an accidental and episodic phenomenon of language. It rather is an intrinsic, ontological trait apart from which an adequate cognition of the essence of language is impossible. Taking the internal form 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 stability lies in the sphere of purely logical forms. If internal word formulations are related to and governed by the spirit, hence the external forms in fact conceal an inner grammatical and syntactic edifice. The laws of external speech functioning are manifested, for example, in bilingualism, which may be viewed every as a social phenomenon related to individual thinking and classificatory abilities or as an evidence of the existence of common verbal structures in pitying consciousness. The author proposes to transfer such linguistic terms as bilingualism and contamination into a different context as a way of seeking novel topical domains within the linguistic ism 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 true with respect to the world. Obviously, the superficial external grammatical fo rm of sentences that we comprehend is a weak verbal expression of the true form of corresponding facts. Poor grammar introduced many 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 ring 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.