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Can language describe reality? with Nick Enfield

Reason with Science

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The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman

I would follow the philosopher John Searle in saying that there are two distinct forms of reality. So one is what he would call brute reality and that is, you know, the world of physical causes. The second type of reality is social reality - it's a fact that I am licensed to drive but that fact is not made true by atoms. That fact has come about through social coordination, through linguistic actions. But all the rest of reality is dependent on language in any way.

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