Ep. 252: Habermas on Communication as Sociality (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Foundation of Language
Mark O'Mara: Is there something built into the structure of speech acts that's a difference in kind than the kind of gestural language or the things we understand from common action. We have to think of this in terms of whether we are engaged in a cooperative activity, he says. "Even if you're just sitting there talking to yourself, that's still a kind of ghost version of what language is really supposed to do"
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