Sobre a natureza da linguagem: Agostinho e Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein always regarded to the Confessions of Saint Augustine as "the most serious work ever written", nevertheless he criticises in a very subtle way Augustine's conception of language in Philosophical Investigations, in Philosophical Grammar and in Brown Book. However Wittgenstein's late criticism of Augustine's "picture language" is also a criticism of Wittgenstein's own early conception of language as a picture in the Tractatus logico-philosophicus. On the other hand, the analysis of how signs are take into life shows much strong similarities between the teachings of late Wittgenstein and those doctrines held by Augustine in De magistro and De Trinitate. Indeed, although very different motivations, either Augustine or Wittgenstein uphold that linguistils signs by unable to bear any meaning and that their sense would emerge fortheir turn progressively from the context which would come to by used in.