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Quote: skepticism about meaning because words are signals, learned from use, with context-dependent meaning; these have contradictory implications

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private language argument for skepticism about meaning

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We have elaborated three main theses: that words … use; and that meaning is context-dependent … These three further imply a simple but remarkably … not be mutually consistent; they may--perhaps must--have contradictory … [e.g., skepticism].   Google-1   Google-2

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