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A world by any other name | Arif Ahmed, Ruth Kempson, Hilary Lawson
Philosophy For Our Times
The Power of Language
I think there really is non-determinism even when you've had clarifications. Still, it's not the case that words really pick out those objects in any very clear way at all. People have simply failed to understand that language is a tool for a craft. I mean, quite seriously, I can set out I go blah, blah, blah and one of you can butt in and say, ha, ha, Ha. And we can do that all within a single sentence. There is a trinsing which we acquire as part of our ability to use language. We're building things together in such a way that we can fully understand them. The word is this thing which
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