The Limits Of Language & Logic – Part 1

Words can be spells. Language is perhaps the most wondrous and dangerous of our discoveries and technologies, a magic that must be respected and used very carefully.

The Limits of Language & Logic – Part 2

Part 2: continuing the exploration of the limits of language & logic

“...As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;

As tumbled over rim in roundy wells

Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's

Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:

Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;

Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,

Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.”

(Gerard Manley Hopkins, “As Kingfishers Catch Fire”, 1877)

An overview of the limits of what we can think and say in any language - based on the ⁠Compossible article⁠.