Lexicon of Arguments

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II 30
uNDERSTANDING7DennettVsWittgenstein: if a lion could speak, we would understand him quite well - with the usual trouble that requires a decent translation between different languages. But in conversations with him we would learn next to nothing about the spirit of normal lions because its spirit that is equipped with speech would be completely different.
Dennet per Wittgenstein. in any case we should not assume that the spirit of language incompetent animals be such as ours. >Animals/Dennett, >Animal Language/Dennett, >Language/Dennett.

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