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News travels faster than thought

Communication by telegraph and telephone leave no time for reflection or consultation and demand an immediate and often hasty decision (1917).

September 28, 2019 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Words, meaning, and thought 3: pain and primes

The moral is to see a doctor when you have pain in the gut, not to consult a linguist.

June 2, 2015 General, Language

Words, meaning, and thought 2: a poverty of primes

Semantic primes represent “the complete inventory of simple universal concepts that are embedded in the lexicons of all (or most) human languages.” Do they suffice?

May 7, 2015 General, Language

Words, meaning, and thought 1: heresy and hokum?

The relationship between language and thought has exercised many great minds. Is Goddard and Wierzbicka’s attempt any advance?

May 5, 2015 General, Language
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