quotidian: Philosophy of Language

07 April 2008

Philosophy of Language

If you take seriously the question "How does language represent reality?" you are eventually forced back to the question "How does anything represent anything?"

John Searle
Talking Philosophy, Interviews by Bryan Magee
1978, p167

Apr 7, 2008 12:21:00 AM | Language

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