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1921 Russell

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1921 Sapir

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1922 Wittgenstein

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1923 Malinowski

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1923 Ogden and Richards

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THOUGHT relates
SYMBOL to REFERENT
or
refers SUBJECT to
PROJECT   OBJECT
Given the symbol, the symbolized varies! Refer to Locke's pragmatic view.

The root of the trouble will be traced to the superstition that words are in some way parts of things or always imply things corresponding to them, historical instances of this still potent instinctive belief being given from many sources. The fundamental and most prolific fallacy is, in other words, that the base of the triangle ... is filled in. (p. 14-5)

In other words, the symbol is not the symbolized, in short, so as to be aligned with "The map is not the territory" (1933/Korzybski) and the like.

"The influence of language upon thought" (as in the subtitle) varies from man to man, perhaps furthermore from case to case, as Locke suggested. Then, dehumanization would be more or less unwise. No precise or wise symbolism without symbolists. Pragmatics is a must above all.

1923 Wells

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1926 Piaget

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1926 Russell

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1927 Wells

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1928 Wells

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1929 Magritte

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"This is not a pipe," as translated from the original French caption, is to say that the image is not the imaged.

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