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#149 Cynefin at 21 - with Dave Snowden

Being Human

CHAPTER

The Importance of Language in Philosophy

When I went to university in Britain, all right, they thought the role of philosophy was to analyze. Hadega famously says, man thinks he's the master in a shape of language, but language is the master of man. We know that human beings will scan two to 3% of what's available. So because we know those things, and they've been subject to repeated experiments, we can build methods and tools consistent with the natural science. And that's called naturalizing sentiment. Right.

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