The FalseAssumptionAbout the Internet David M. Anderson Old Assumptions about Language Distort the Nature of the Internet The assumption that the Internet essentially provides us with information is false. It is related to the assumption, which is also false, that function of the Internet is to provide us with choices about how to use information. While there is no doubt that the Internet does provide information and does provide users with choices about how to use information, the mistake is to assume that the essence of the Internet is to provide information for choices. The mistake made about the Internet is parallel to the mistake that Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the great philosophers of the century, made about language in his influential book, 7~actaus Logico-Philosophicus. It was related to a mistake made by logical positivists who congregated in Vienna as well as the British philosopher, A .J. Ayer, who became a spokeman for the logical positivists. The mistake, which Wittgenstein corrected in an even more influential book, Philosophical Investigations, was that the only kind of language that was meaningful was descriptive language, basically factual language. The old theory of language, to take the positivist formulation, was that descriptive
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The false assumption about the internet
Anderson, David M.
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Association for Computing Machinery – Mar 1, 2000
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