
Beyond Us: Language with Jennifer Hornsby
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is Language Really a Description of an Objective State of Affair?
To what extent is language really a description of an objective reality? And to what extent does it actually create a sort of linguistic reality tunnel? What do you think about this? You speak of language as a description, but i think it's a user of language who describes things. But would te linguistic construct be truly just a description of objective states of affairs or is it as much a reflection ofof that hood, or of who that describes the world?
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