One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
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Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth which simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is likewise a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.Willard Van Orman Quine
Language is a social art.
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We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
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Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
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'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.
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