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Language & Meaning: Crash Course Philosophy #26

2016-08-29

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Today we start our unit on language with a discussion of meaning and how we assign and understand meaning. We’ll cover sense and reference, beetles in boxes, and language games.

We’re also getting into the meaning-making game ourselves: bananas are now chom-choms. Pass it on.

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Intro
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Language
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Definitions
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Definitions dont work
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Family resemblance
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Paradigm cases
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Meaning is use
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Code words
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An experiment
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