A world by any other name | Arif Ahmed, Ruth Kempson, Hilary Lawson
Philosophy For Our Times
The Unsolvable Puzzle of Language and Its Relationship to the World
Linguist David Wheeler argues that conventional views of language have to be abandoned. The shift is to see language as a process, it's a tool for interaction and we're always building them as we go fast he says. But there's much more to say about the intrinsic non-dministicism or 'non-determinism' of language in order to define its tools which operate under an evolving context. And then we'll move to a general debate among the panel roughly divided into three sections and then we'll have questions from the audience.
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