Language in Relation to Essence

That language is transmitted through tradition necessarily limits its ability to define concepts such that they contain all intended instances and exclude all others. In Negative Dialectics Theodor Adorno explores how a "changed philosophy" should be aware of its limitations (its transmission through language being one of them) and must give itself to instances rather than concepts. Using Jorge Luís Borges's Funes the Memorious and Friedrich Nietzsche's On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense I explore the discrepancies between objects and concepts which try to define them and show how the tensions that arise between the two can themselves be useful in transmitting truth about the essence of concepts.