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The utility of constructed languages

Posted on 22 June 2016 by awcarus23 — 3 Comments

A.W. Carus Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Munich The question how language, a sequence of events in spacetime, can have meaning — which seems not to be in spacetime — has puzzled philosophers since antiquity, though it only came…

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