Language Is a Semiotic System

We are always subject to the brute reality that's around us purely because, you know, language is a semiotic system. And all semiotic systems must operate based on essentially based on perception and then everything else kind of follows on from that. So if we're using spoken language, I have to be able to hear you. You're right now, you're in another country, we have technology that creates noise that can go into my idram. But if we didn't have this tech, I couldn't, you couldn't hear me because you know, thousands and miles away. Yeah, but in the case of brute reality, all the languages can go down to kind of this human

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