Another Short History of Linguistics (85)

In modern time, any essential development of philosophy is always accompanied with the development of mathematics. But, today, the students of linguistics don’t required to know math. The result is that they could not find out a real breakthrough.  In the first half of twenty century, the mainstream linguistics still looking for the mathematic spirit of linguistic idea. They made great efforts to get a model called structuralism, yet later they gave up. Instead a new trend of thought took place. A term in vogue call it Deconstructism. In fact it is an idea of ‘thinking without math’. It started form the indeterminancy principle, a phenomenon of using microwave to measure microwave. It is but a special case, no one has ever said that it could not be solved. Yet it give Deconstructism a good excuse that using the mind of mathematics is stupid.

In the history we found many times people wanted to negate the spirit of mathematics. The most famous example could be the Zeno’s paradoxes. It triggered someone declared that the mathematics is failing. There are many other examples such as someone declared that the universe could not be understood by simple mathematics and the organic matter could not be understood by human being etc.  But all of these issues were solved later.