Maturana and Wittgenstein: Resisting Assimilation Together

Kenny, Vincent

Volume 18 · Number 1 · Pages 046–049

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Maturana and Wittgenstein: Resisting Assimilation Together

Vincent Kenny

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Open peer commentary on the article “The Maturanian Turn: Good Prospects for the Language Sciences” by Alexander V. Kravchenko. Abstract: Comparing Maturana’s work with that of von Bertalanffy does not help to highlight Maturana’s contribution to language and linguistics. A more productive comparison is found in Wittgenstein’s approach to language, which has several important and surprising parallels with Maturana’s work, and which may help Kravchenko’s task of reconstructing linguistics.

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Kenny V. (2022) Maturana and wittgenstein: Resisting assimilation together. Constructivist Foundations 18(1): 046–049. https://constructivist.info/18/1/046

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