Citations:wordlike

This term is used frequently by the philosopher Georg Kuhlewind in referring to the character of our experience with any sort of things.

From "The Life of the Soul": Willed, active remembering is a specifically human capacity for two reasons. On earth, only man has the use of a will directed by an I; we could even say, this capacity for willing is the I. This capacity is also the capacity for thinking, since only what is specified in thought can be willed by the I. But what has been specified in thought and remembered is a that-and a that means something wordlike, or a word. The capacity for speaking-in words-is closely bound to the capacity for remembering: the one cannot be imagined without the other.

From "The Logos Structure of the World": The discontinuous structure of the conceptual world produces the structure of the perceptual world. Both structures are given by language. Language lifts the basic concepts out of what is directly given. That is one of the reasons why the wordlike, rather than the Idea, plays the central role in the following chapters. Because they partly appear in the sense-perceptible world and also partly live concealed as an activity of consciousness, human words can serve as a model for both human beings and the sense-perceptible world. Both receive their meaning, their hidden part, like words themselves, from human beings.