Thinking forms lie stored and resigning within natural language itself

Evidence

Declaring that ‘the forms of thought are, in the first instance, displayed (herausgesetzt) and stored (niedergelegt) in human language’, Hegel instances this natural deposit as if it were a consignment coming from nowhere, as if it fell from the sky, like a gift to be kept. Niederlegen in German means ‘ to lay down’, ‘to deposit’, ‘to write onto a piece of paper’, but also ‘to resign’, ‘to give up’. Hence when the philosopher works on natural language, he or she is working on a new space and time: stored by spirit in the idiom itself. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1144

Categorization

• DEFINE: Unpacks the German verb niederlegen’s full polysemy (deposit/to lay down/also to resign) that carries the core claim about spirit’s storage in idiom.
• XREF: connects to: Thought forms are stored in human language as a deposit to be worked on — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1144; Linguistic thoughts can be heard as sounds rather than meanings — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 221

Broader Connections

• Thought forms are stored in human language as a deposit to be worked on #expands (0.95) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1144
• Linguistic thoughts can be heard as sounds rather than meanings #qualifies (0.75) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 221