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The War on Language | The Aneesh Karve Series | Episode 6 (WiM281)

The "What is Money?" Show

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I Love Semantic Inflation

Hayek: "If you expand the conceptual or the semantic basis of that, inflate the semantics of violence to mean ... what does this guy say here?" Hayek says we can use these kind of economic metaphors of debasement and inflation to describe the undesirable changes in society. The same can be said for words themselves, which are more like the media of exchange of human conception, perhaps.

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