* Empirically, words seem to be tools which we use to make ideas appear in other people's minds.
* To know what a word means we need to understand the mental state the speaker intends to create in their audience (which I think may be different from the state the speaker had when they used the word! and involves having a model of how other people think!)
* We can convey a rich amount of meaning in as few as zero words.
readthenotes1 9 hours ago [-]
One of my favorite words is logomachy
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* Empirically, words seem to be tools which we use to make ideas appear in other people's minds.
* To know what a word means we need to understand the mental state the speaker intends to create in their audience (which I think may be different from the state the speaker had when they used the word! and involves having a model of how other people think!)
* We can convey a rich amount of meaning in as few as zero words.