
Ep 165: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 5
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The Problem of Meaning and the Truth of a Statement of Fact or Proposition
As long as the shaping is infinitely elastic in some way then I've got no problem with saying that language can shape reality. As soon as there's a problem with language that's preventing us in some way from actually talking about reality we just invent more words. We have a more convoluted let's say sentence which allows us to describe what's going on. So Popper goes on and he says quote. Thus there is indeed a familiar as well as a logically defensible sense in which the true or proper meaning of the term is its original meaning. If we understand it we do so because we learned it correctly from a true authority from one who knew the language. This shows that the problem of
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