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Re:To Understand Language Is to Understand Generalization by Gimpei on Saturday December 18, 2021 @01:27AM (#29602234)
What are your thoughts on the externalism of Putnam and Kripke, i.e. that meanings aren't just defined by use, but that they are also determined by objects themselves? It feels like that puts a crimp in meaning = co-occurance, but maybe not?
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Re:To Understand Language Is to Understand Generalization by solarmist on Saturday December 18, 2021 @02:45AM (#29602616)
I agree.

Or put another way a set (or sets) of concrete examples grounds every abstract idea (including words as abstract objects). And it's turtles all the way down (or up depending).

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