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A world by any other name | Arif Ahmed, Ruth Kempson, Hilary Lawson
Philosophy For Our Times
The Importance of Words in the Use of Language
I always wanted to ask you, Arifal because you've done a lot of work on freedom of speech particularly. It's important as, who was saying the words that we're using clearly have an importance in that too so perhaps if you could come back on those two. I think Ruth's example illustrates quite well, a broader point of Frankenstein made actually which is that it's not because there's a particular mapping relation between words and reality that we use them in a certain way. Because we have these uses of them that we can say that there's this or that relation between reality.
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