The ‘turn to language’ followed the early 20th C. collapse of scientific certainty led by the quantum and relativity revolutions.
Specifically after the contemporary scientific movement ‘logical-positivism’ ended in disappointment, as the best mathematicians and methodologists of their age discovered, there simply is no certainty.
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