Our critical thinking series continues in the language space, focusing now on perhaps the most powerful tool of all: the metaphor. Like the words and grammar of language itself, metaphor is a crucial, foundational aspect of effective communication, and it’s one we tend to take for granted. Metaphor is a way to create common ground. [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Words That Matter: Wittgenstein and Senge on the Power of Language in Critical Thinking
Posted in collaboration, critical thinking, culture, language, tagged bohm, change, collaboration, communication, education, innovation, knowledge, kuhn, language, learning, linkedin, paradigm, Senge, Wittgenstein on August 16, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Language, like the culture it derives from, plays a subtle but powerful role in how we interact with others. Yet we are so completely immersed in it, we scarcely give it a second thought. Early in the 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein brought focus to the critical importance of language in the context of knowledge, philosophy, [...]
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