Blanks in cognition: escape from the limits of the language

Abstract

This paper considers some philosophical implications of a claim that language relates to the world not by the means of (re)presentation, but in actions, taken by humans. The enacted approach to language shifts the attention of a researcher from language structure to human embodied action and its comprehension. Considering the philosophical implications of this idea, we come to a conclusion that enacted understanding of action should reveal the gaps ­(blanks) in our cognition, appearing because of structural difference between our actions and language. Consequently, it shows how we can extend in action our knowledge of the world, limited by language. Thus, here I present an attempt to escape from the limits, put by Wittgenstein in his dictum: “the limits of the world are the limits of language”.