Philosophy of Grammar

Charles Lincon
4 min readOct 24, 2020

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Studying a foreign language such as Ancient Greek can give insights into your own language. But what about the language of mathematics, history, law, and history? Well, this article doen’st deal directly with these “languages”

The way in which we speak and often reflect the way that we think. And the way that we think can often be informed my memory and experiences. That’s what we end up thinking cannot affect our actions based on memories and experiences which often has something to do with the structure of our language. That’s why formulating questions about grammar in the philosophy of grammar could be of outpost importance.

The way in which we describe certain things based on the tense or the aspect of language, can be very interesting to consider.

Tents can be broken down into three basic parts: past, present, and future. But then these can be modified by the perfect or the progressive. The perfect has the aspect of adding the words has, have, had and this indicates that something had been done in the past or has been done in the past or that it will have been done in the past. The progressive usually ends with the -ing ending.

Magic can occur in some sense of the word that is to say when you can bind all these together when you create the present progressive or when you create the present perfect progressive for the past perfect progressive or the future perfect progressive. The present perfect often is the best way to link the past in the present that is to say from the philosophical perspective an action or the existence of being has begun in the past and then continues on into the future — this is the present perfect. When you add the progressive, you can indicate that something has been going on in the past and is continually occurring into the future.

Often you could see things in multiple different ways and this would inform them as having occurred in the same different way than you ultimately describe it in the same way.

For example one could say that they have eaten in the past on Tuesday or they say that they eight. One is in the past tense and one is in the past perfect tense. Ultimately they could describe the same thing you could say you ate on Tuesday and you could also say that you had eaten on Tuesday as well. Or these could temporarily refer back to the same thing that has occurred. Thus the structure of grammar can ultimately refer to the same object that has occurred in the past affecting the subject in different ways. This is important because different modes of speaking could be construed as indicating some thing else but really in the same vein the different modes of speaking and writing could indicate the same thing.

This is not necessarily a reference in regards to language games as a one Wittgenstein envisioned them in terms of finding what the definition of a word is. Instead the social contacts can be conflated and is not always clear. Thus language can be used to obfuscate what was meant and a pie and adhere to traditional notes of grammar of what was really meant. Depending on the social context and depending on what the intent of the riders were, the definition and the meaning can change from a Temporel standpoint.

© Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV

© Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV

Speaking of law. Did you know at my law school graduation I got an award for the most pro bono hours completed of any student? It was an honor and I am truly thankful for the mentorship and opportunity. Rosalind Jeffers was an excellent mentor and teacher. I’m honored she surprised me with this award. “The Equal Justice Award was presented to Charles Lincoln [Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV ] as the graduate who has performed pro bono legal services in an extraordinary way and contributed the greatest number of hours of public service pro bono work with 674.5 hours, exemplifying the Aggie core value of selfless service. Lincoln has worked with Catholic Charities, the Texas 13th Court of Appeals, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Texas Attorney General’s Office and U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffery Manske of the Western District of Texas. The May graduating class contributed a total of 10,378.79 hours of pro bono legal services to the community, making a tremendous impact on the poor and underserved. The Equal Justice Program and pro bono service are cornerstones of the law school. Texas A&M School of Law is one of the few schools to require each student to complete a minimum of 30 pro bono hours in order to graduate. Assistant Dean Rosalind Jeffers, who oversees the program, presented the award. “Source: https://law.tamu.edu/media/news-media-resources/story/spring-2016-hooding-and-commencement-ceremony

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Charles Lincon
Charles Lincon

Written by Charles Lincon

Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Hegelian dialectics, Attic Greek, masters University of Amsterdam.

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