Tuesday 25 June 2013

Wittgenstein and Policy Making

"The limit of  my language are the limits of my world" -Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Profound and impressionable were the words Ludwig Wittgenstein used to write. Profound, impressionable.....and overarching. It may or may not be a slight stretch to call the above quote a Wittgenstein's unified thesis of everything human. However, one thing is certain, the above quote has a lot to offer by way of policy making.

If one takes the above statement to its logical conclusion and applies it to policy making, the person may find that the key to a successful new policy has 2 important characteristics:
a) It attempts to change the existing language of the people.
and/or
b) It attempts to reflect the already changed language of the people.