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Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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What's the Turning Point in Language?

"I really liked her distinction between something being significant. If you ask, how did language come about? People needed it, right?" "It's the fact that humans babble as babies. It's play that we play with words," she says. 'That resonated with me in that section'

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