Christos Tombras, "Discourse Ontology: Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
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What Is a Language? And What Are Words?
There's a lot more that goes on in cycle now s than words. We need to understand language as something much more general, he says. What is the important thing? Is this that something can stand for something else? The idea that something can refer to something else, that's the important thing. Ah, not simpolization. Let me try to latid properly. When you speak about blushing, blushing is an event, a bodily event, which happens within a context. This only exists because human beings sustain that in language. To put it in a different way, i say, mysel so you don't blush outside language. It will be if we can imagine someone
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