Linguistic determinism --- I agree that language can influence our thoughts and ways of seeing, being and acting, but I don't believe that language always has the power to determine and constrain us in the way that Wittgenstein suggests here. I often feel that my own language fails me in not providing a word for a concept to emotion that I nevertheless feel, suggesting that my experience outstrips my language.

Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu