Philosophy Wire: Understanding the words. Knowing the Self…

Before infants can learn words, they must identify those words in continuous speech. Yet, the speech signal lacks obvious boundary markers, which poses a potential problem for language acquisition. Newborn babies are born with the innate skills needed to pick out words from language, a new study published in Developmental Science reveals. [1] We every day try to understand. Understand the parts. Understand the whole. But how can we understand the parts without knowing the whole? How can we know the words without knowing Logos? How can we understand Logos without knowing the words? How can we see One without knowing the parts? Trapped into a tautological vicious circle we are. And the only way to get out of it is to kill the one who drew it…

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