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Ep. 292: Langer on Symbolic Music (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Flight of the Bumblebee

It's funny how she's very much a pragmatist about facts, and we can talk in more detail about what her account of a fact is. She defines it behavior elistically, right? It's not just sort of like Wittgenstein. This is the basic unit of metaphysics or something. So I'm not sure that that's her view, but the reason I bring it up is because I feel like it's all about how it is used. And insofar as you want to actually communicate, then it has to have a conventional meaning.

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