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#96: How Words Get Their Meaning (feat. Gary Lupyan)

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Is Language a System of Categories?

The sapphire wharf hypothesis is that language doesn't affect thought. But we're trying to cooperate in a society, and in trying to do that language helps facilitate this. The categories depend on what you're trying to do with the situations you're in your song. There are other ways of learning it, but you can get a lot out of that principle.

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