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(250 words per page double spaced) The Role Of Language The Role
of Language Can contemporary discourse presume a community of
interest? In order to answer this question, one is forced to
first answer the question, can language be used to reveal
anything new? If the answer is yes, then how can it do this and
how can we employ it to do this for us. Also, one is forced to
ask what is it exactly that we are looking for? Once weíve found
it, how can we use it to improve our present condition? Plato
and Descartes both believe that language can indeed improve our
conditions through itís revelation, and both give methods to
attain new knowledge. Although vastly differing, in that
Descartes builds knowledge from the ground up, while Plato works
from a distorted view, and seeks to clarify it, their
philosophies mean the most, and have the highest practical
purpose when they are employed together. By basing a Socratic
argument on Descartesí pre-establishe