Beyond Us: Language with Jennifer Hornsby
Philosophy For Our Times
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What Is the Meaning of a Word?
In the world of alternative facts and fake news, when we hear people talking or saying something, so often we sort of zoom into the words. Could language be misleading? A that regard as a sort of a layer which expresses meaning, but also distorts meaning? I should say first rit i don't think there are alternative facts, as it were. Am, we can use sentences which state facts, or if we lie, we use a sentence which precisely doesn't state a fact. But er, if if we're going to talk, then it's language that we have to use.
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