Lexicon of Arguments

 Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I 228
Language/Hacking: thesis: language was invented out of boredom, to tell each other jokes around the campfire. (The thesis goes back to the Leakey family).
Thesis: the first word that was needed was something to express: "real", e.g. "No, not this, but this here is real": The rest could be pointed at.
>"Real"/Austin, >Reference, >Pointing.
Even before the name (for absent objects) was available one needed logical constants.
>Logical constants.
Instead of "Me Tarzan, you Jane": "This real". Once a way of representing is found (e.g. pointing), it is followed by a second-order term.
>Representation.
VsHacking: it is pointless to set up a theory that cannot be confirmed.
>Method.
>Language evolution.

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