Chapters 6 and 7 peel back the facade of language as always being a sophisticated tool to learn and gain knowledge.
Sometimes it doesn’t do that.
So if words are symbols, not the thing that they point to, how do we know what they mean?
Chapter 4 dives into this very question and gives us insight into something most of us have probably never considered, which is what is…
What is language for?
It’s a lofty question with lofty answers.
In the first chapter of Language in Thought and Action the authors make a stunning claim: “Societies, both animal and human, might almost…