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#36 Peter Boghossian - Having Better Conversations About Philosophy

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How to Be Deluded About Having a Language

In order to even be deluded about having a language, you'd need to have a language in which to be deluded. Descartes was criticized because it's a kind of solipsism or some people, if you're oddly enough criticized like a bucket individualism or an individualism. But that's why I like Persa's argument so much is because it does assume that there was this thing beforehand. And we could get really weird and sci-fi about it, and talk about everybody's dead, and it's all AI. Even in those cases, you still need a pre-existing linguistic community. It's not an argument I've come across before. And I'm

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