Language & Meaning: Crash Course Philosophy #26

Published on September 13, 2016
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Today we start our unit on language with a discussion of meaning and how we assign and understand meaning. We’ll cover sense and reference, beetles in boxes, and language games.

We’re also getting into the meaning-making game ourselves: bananas are now chom-choms. Pass it on.

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