\u201cLanguage ‒ here in the special acceptation of \u2018articuled phonation as a semiotic phenomenon\u2019 ‒ is an anthropic universal\u201d. Such a statement could proceed from the idea of ancestrality (or inner foreknowledge) which was already encapsulated in the famous passages of the Confessiones by Augustine with which Ludwig Wittgenstein introduced his post-humously published(1953) Philosophische Untersuchungen. According to this passage, phylogenetic language development ‒ which we may think as coincident, although antipodean, in respect to ontogenetic Kindersprache development as described by Roman Jakobson ‒ proceeds by ostension of material objects \u2018depository of meaning\u2019(the primitive, aphasic phase of Wittgenstein\u2019s paradoxical tribe of Builders), while repeatedly hearing an oral utterance which turns out to be \u2018depository\u2019 of the same meaning. With the thought experiment about the afasic Builders tribe ‒ through which he falsifies the Augustinian operationalist model ‒ Wittgenstein fur-thermore shows that there could be no human community, however small, without verbal language. Another \u2018anthropic universal\u2019, indirectly referred to by the Augustinian model, is the very fact that there can be no unintelligible human speech, since even languages never before heard could be understood “ex motu corporis [\u2026] tamquam verbis naturalibus omnium gentium”. Writing, on the other hand, could hardly be defined as an \u2018anthropic universal\u2019. Ma…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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