ABSTRACT
I have traced the development of Gadamer’s thought concerning the unity of language. His insightful notion that having a language means having a world is derailed by his preoccupation with the nature of being. This preoccupation leads Gadamer to posit a reality that includes more than what we can see of reality in our everyday language. He relies on metaphysical distinctions while simultaneously revealing their impotence. Thus in Truth and Method Gadamer valiantly struggles to give an account of the unity of language but fails by the standards of his own criticisms of metaphysics.
