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Are all languages related? [closed]
This question was prompted by this newspaper article saying:
Languages spoken by billions of people across Europe and Asia are descended from an ancient tongue uttered in southern Europe at the ...
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A simple paradox of True or False [duplicate]
In a piece of paper, it was written:
The statement written in the paper is false.
Is that statement actually true or false?
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Does languange somehow filter what we can know?
I've read a proposition somewhere: That our languange acts as a filter, allowing us to know certain things while making it impossible to know the rest(1). It seems that mathematics has some things ...
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Does Chomsky make a good point by promoting anarchy while undermining college education?
I didn't read this in a book by Noam Chomsky but in an interview of his where he talks about being an anarchist and not mentioning anarchy when talking to an anarchist kind of thing but mentions ...
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Can any one experience the World without a language? if yes to what extent, if no, why not?
By listening, speaking, seeing and reflecting on words made by the alphabets of a language - one experiences the World. How far is this correct? Can any one experience the World without a language? if ...
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Is meaning distinct from language?
Many theories of speech describe speech acts as being phenomena with both a sign and signified aspect. ( http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/meaning/ etc.)
In another perspective, which is exemplified ...
