LANGUAGES (Hierarchy of)
Charles François (2004). LANGUAGES (Hierarchy of), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1855.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1855 ▶ |
| Object type | General information, Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
In relation to WITTGENSTEIN's, TARSKI's and GÖDEL's logical investigations, and in B. RUSSELL's words: “… every language has, as Mr. WITTGENSTEIN says, a structure concerning which, in the language, nothing can be said, but that there may be another language dealing with the structure of the first language, and having itself a new structure, and that to this hierarchy of languages, there may be no limit” (quoted by L. LÖFGREN, 1979, p.247).
This is obviously also related to B. RUSSELL and A. N. WHITEHEAD's theory of types and GÖDEL 's Incompleteness theorem.