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04Dec2009
by AuthorStowe Boyd | Posted on DateFriday, December 4, 2009 at 03:58AM

Co-Inventing The World

We human beings are linguistic, social, emotional animals that co-invent a world through language. That means that reality is not formed by objects.

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Reader Comments (2)

Someone's been reading Robert Anton Wilson or the General Semantics crowd...

"Words bring us to an unpredictable version of reality. They are cultural software, not Yellow cabs."

December 4, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterBill Seitz
Samuel Johnson kicked a stone a few years back and refuted him - and Bishop Berkeley - thusly. We don't co-invent a world - the world *is*, dude.
December 4, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterZach Tumin

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