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Re:How Dumb is Daniel Dennett? by cglee on Saturday January 19, 2008 @02:05PM (#100960)
It seems to me that the entire study of philosophy is comprised of arguments based on linguistic puns; how else to express our thoughts? As long as we are limited by language, any existing language, we are constrained by its syntax and semantics. This is analogous to the study of physics with math; we often need to invent new math to model physical phenomenon. Likewise, until we invent a suitable new philosophy language to model the world, we're just going to spin our wheels.
Re:How Dumb is Daniel Dennett? by ereldon on Saturday January 19, 2008 @04:04PM (#101010)
somebody's been reading wittgenstein
Re:How Dumb is Daniel Dennett? by cglee on Sunday January 20, 2008 @11:33AM (#101253)
I haven't ever actually, but I may have to start now.