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> I don't think it a coincidence that the rise of linguistics coincides with a decline in cognition that we can all observe today as reaching a sort of critical
by sonotathrowaway 5y ago
> I don't think it a coincidence that the rise of linguistics coincides with a decline in cognition that we can all observe today as reaching a sort of critical mass, in which the mention of a thing is gauged to be a judgment of a thing, particularly in social media contexts.
I don’t think this is true at all, or supported by any examination of history.
- RNCTX 5y agoThe idea that everything can be turned into a science, when that is clearly not the case, has created a few generations of people who think that they can programmatically examine the meaning of human discourse, which is also not the case. As for the history in question, it's only going back to ~1993, isn't it? And really on pervasive since the early 2000s.