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Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Is There Something More Complex Than That?

I see her as at the birth of ordinary language philosophy. She wants to say that what seems more complex, but are actually sort of more vague in certain ways,. But these ways of relating to the world symbolically, those, in fact, provide the foundation for explicit, discursive language. And so we can't think that there's something pure and scientific about statements, and that everything else is something that we can't make sense of.

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