[[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]]] Source: - Evernote C202008041945: Book Notes from Philosophical Investigation - [[202009141606 World of language, there are new and old development]] #language #knowledge **18 - Think of certain lingos or parlance like different suburbs in the language world. In the neighbourhood of psychology for example, there are different way of speaking, then in other neighbourhood.** * "18. Do not be troubled by the fact that languages (2) and (8) consist only of orders. If ==you want to say that this shews them to be incomplete, ask yourself whether our language is complete;—whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language.== (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular"