Hawking (1988: 174-5):
However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, “The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.” What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant!
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, not only are science are philosophy realised in the meaning of language, but it is language that makes science and philosophy possible, since it is the meaning of language that is reconstrued by the processes of consciousness as the meaning of science and philosophy.
Moreover, because science and philosophy are realised in language, a theory of language can be used to analyse the language of theory. This blog is an attempt to demonstrate the potential value of using one theory of language, Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, to analyse the language of science and philosophy.
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