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To What Extent Does The Nature Of Language Illuminate Our Understanding Of The Relation Between Knowledge Of Ourselves And Knowledge Of Others?
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To What Extent Does the Nature of Language Illuminate Our Understanding of the
Relation Between Knowledge of Ourselves and Knowledge of Others?
More than any other thing, the use of language sets humankind apart from the
remainder of the animal .... Middle of Term Paper
... is not relevant here and so will not be discussed
further.
Language is a system of symbols which represent thoughts, perceptions and a
multitude of other mental events. Although the meaning of a given word or
expression is by no means fixed, there is a sufficiently high degree of
consensus in most cases to ensure that our thoughts are to a great extent
communicable. This essay will concentrate on two aspects of language. Firstly
that it gives our own thoughts and those of others a certain degree of
portability and secondly that because it has a firm (though not rigid) set of
rules governing the relationships between symbols it allow ... |
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