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#36 Peter Boghossian - Having Better Conversations About Philosophy

Within Reason

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The Evolution of Language

If you were a brain in a vat and they're like in the matrix or something in which there's no actual water that it hooks to, you still couldn't make the utterance. How could you? Well, language evolved from somewhere. We didn't we didn't begin with language. That seems like a form of primitive rudimentary language. It doesn't seem to require the existence of another person and it certainly does not necessitate the pre existence of a linguistic community. So if you have a pre existing linguistic community, then you just adopt the language of the linguistic community. If you don't have that, what you just, I mean, what would you do? You wouldn't

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