The Prose of the World by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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I accommodate to the other person through my language and my body. Even the distance which the normal subject puts between himself and others, as well as the clear distinction between speaking and listening, are modalities of the system of embodied subjects. Verbal hallucination is another modality of the same system. The patient can believe that someone is speaking to him when in fact it is he himself speaking, because the principle underlying this aberration is part of the human situation. As an embodied subject I am exposed to the other person, just as he is to me, and I identify myself with the person speaking before me.

But he understood the relation between the surface and deep structure of language (though these are not his expressions) in terms of a teleology of reason which is realized only through the experience of history and language in the production of a logic within contingency—an incarnate logic. Advent does not leave time behind: it is a promise of events. The domination of the many by the one in the history of painting, such as we have met in the exercise of the perceiving body, does not consummate succession in an eternity.

A question is merely asked in the expectation of a yes or no, and in either case the result is a proposition. The proposal is to create a system of precise significations which would translate everything in a language that is clear and thus constitute a model to which language can add only error and confusion. Such a standard would provide a measure of any individual's power of expression. In the end the sign would function purely as an index, without any admixture of signification. But no one dreams any more of a logic of invention, and even those who think it is possible to express, by means of an arbitrary algorithm, every well-formed proposition do not believe that this purified language would exhaust everyday language any more than it could be absorbed by everyday language.

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