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Nihilism

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Correspondence Theory of Truth

There's no word for animals. If anybody puts their hand into a fire all over the world, they say sort of ouch. That's absolutely correct. What we're talking about is marginal things. And so you could even ask intelligent questions about translation. The misinterpreted to the CEO was to say that because words exist as part of a system, those words are sealed off from the outside world. They do not mean things outside the system. But if I use a language of pointing, and I point to objects, then everything that I point to is a pointy. It doesn't belong to the real world.

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