Countering stupid ideas proves to be a matter of some subtlety and intelligence…
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Semantic Drift
The extent to which errors of replication are responsible for longue durée cultural, subjective and semantic metamorphosis remains an intriguing possibility…
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Circular
“…human knowledge must always be content to accept some terms as intelligible without definition…:
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Communication: The Problem
The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein identified some interesting problems of language. Language is a logical system through which we communicate. Language is also that through which we very often fail to understand what is being conveyed to us, that is – it is that through which we fail to communicate clearly…