Wittgenstein on AI, Poetry, and Babel
Philosophy of Language is Underrated
St. Augustine thinks that the way we learn language is by pointing to things and repeating the words for them, matching the linguistic sign to its correspondent object. Tree. Cloud. Car. Table. Wittgenstein, on the other hand, claims that children learn the meaning of words not by fitting them to things, but by using them in sentences. You don’t need to…
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