The Spell of Linguistic Philosophy
Description
In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Bernard Williams of Cambridge University discuss linguistic philosophy-an offshoot of logical positivism-which argues that sentences can have no meaning beyond that which humans give them because language is a human invention.
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46 min
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Date of Publication
[2013], c1977
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Films on Demand
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