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Reading that fight-over-semantics-because-words-have-meaning-and-etc reminds me what you learn from Ordinary Language Philosophy: that words have meaning in sp
by mancerayder 9y ago
Reading that fight-over-semantics-because-words-have-meaning-and-etc reminds me what you learn from Ordinary Language Philosophy: that words have meaning in specific context and we as humans spend inordinate amounts of time arguing with one another over what we THINK are topics of substance, but are ACTUALLY coming from different contexts. Different 'language games'. Example: the musician argues that 'users' are not the 'listeners' of music but are in fact the executives. For a software engineer / product manager / CEO a user is someone who uses their software. For the musician, a user is one who 'uses' people nefariously. There were a number of other language game situations where people talked through one another in that article.