Tag: semantics
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In Defense of Linguistic Luddism
by Moti Gorin ____ The Luddites weren’t a complacent group of workers. They worried about the loss of their jobs as a result of the introduction of new technologies, and so they went about destroying the textile machines that were rendering human laborers obsolete. The word ‘Luddite’ has since become a pejorative, applied to those…
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Meaning, Hummus Masabacha, and Def Leppard
By Daniel A. Kaufman ___ Bernard Williams is one of the top 5 greatest post WWII philosophers. Here is a new website devoted to collecting everything available by and about him. https://sites.google.com/site/bernardwilliamsphilosopher/home Rare and very high quality live footage of Def Leppard, from 1983, when they were still a hard-rocking NWOBHM band. (Concert split into…