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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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Gricean logic against Ordinal Language Philosophy
For example, Charles Travis (1996; 1999) has pointed out, a variety of ways that a sentence may be used quite literally, non-metaphorically, seriously and sincerely – and yet still express two ...
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How does language alter our experience of the world?
I was thinking — if we didn't have words our experiences would be different somehow. It seems to me that perhaps words are limiting our experiences because as soon as we relate an experience to a word ...
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How do we know that grammar is a thing?
I mean, is there a thought experiment that shows its ontological validity?
Could it concievably, based on the data that we have, be merely an epiphenomenon of syntax and semantics?
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Is uttering a true statement and by that making it false considered lying?
Let's say my friend has a fly on her head, but she does not know it.
I say to her: "You don't know that you have a fly on your head".
Right before I uttered my statement - it was true, but right after ...
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Wittgenstein on Math
I have been reading Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and my question is how does he come to realize that we can't have a perfect language.
For instance I would say math is a perfect ...
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What came first, language or consciousness?
What came first, language or consciousness?
Has any philosopher said that language gives us consciousness by allowing us to communicate with ourselves and therefore giving us choices that we did ...
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Is the truth a privative?
A privative is the absence of something, and as such doesn't exist. So cold is a privative, as it is merely the absence of heat.
This question is inspired by this answer about a single noun for an ...
