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    Words help construct the reality we live in

    by Kai von Fintel Oct 17, 2022 2 minutes

    One of the patron saints of linguistics, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), famously ridiculed the notion put forward by Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) that the world consists solely of ideas in the mind. Johnson biographer James Boswell recounts, “I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson.’” Rather than being a mere figment of thought, the rock was tangibly real to Johnson. 

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