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..... A third decentreing has now occurred The situation is now that man has beendecentred this time from his place as the privileged knower of theuniverse. MAN HAS LOST HIS PLACE AS THE CENTRAL REFERENCE POINTFOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE. This because the very medium through which man usesto understand the universe i.e. language in fact falsifies the universe. Thus man looses his ability to be a privileged knower of the universe. With the inability of language to capture the totality of the known about the universe man ends up without any intellectual reference points and is thus decentred from his privilege place as the interpreter the universe- he is decentred from the universe. Man cannot know the universe as the language he uses to understand the universe at his previous centre only falsifies it .Manslanguage is not able to capture the totality of the known about the universe
The very words physicists use to describe reality constrains their knowledgeof it and scientists in every field will one day encounter this barrier tohuman understanding
The very words physicists use to describe reality constrains their knowledgeof it and scientists in every field will one day encounter this barrier tohuman understanding”Now on the point of an object being both a particle and a wave Zajak notesthat “we are limited by our language to lists of words much as our worldlyexperiences limit the concepts those words bring to mind
Thus with regard to the ontological nature of the world the situation seems to be as O’Hear notes“ontology here would be seen as determined by the demands of an areaof discourse, rather than by any feeling that human recognitional powers and abilities should determine the limits of our language.”In this regard the logic which is generated by theuse of the logical constants of a natural language such as ‘or’, ‘if’, ‘not’,‘and’ , etc may not be adequate enough for the natural language to interpretor understand the ontological nature ofthe physical world
MAN HAS LOST HIS PLACE AS THE CENTRAL REFERENCE POINTFOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE.