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Language and thought are intricately intertwined, creating a complex tapestry that shapes our cognition. While it is evident that thought can exist independently of language, particularly in the ...

The philosophy of language and thought investigates the intricate relationship between linguistic expressions and the mental representations they evoke. Rooted in classical debates surrounding ...

Book One: The functions of language -- Foreword: Red-Eye and the woman problem: A semantic parable -- 1. Language and survival -- What animals shall we imitate? -- Cooperation -- The pooling of ...

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” observed philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1922. We might ask, accordingly, how does language shape reality, arbitrating human experience of ...

Language feels simple when we use it. We talk, we text, we listen, and words seem to appear naturally from thought. But the study of linguistics tells a more complicated story, one where language ...

A mere five days before Hitler’s suicide, the United Nations conference convened in San Francisco. “United Nations” had been the term that Franklin Roosevelt had borrowed from Byron’s Childe Harold to ...