Some thoughts about language
Have you sometimes thought about conditions of correspondence between a word and a real object? Where is a cause to apply the word “dog” to that being with four legs and tail? It’s even not similar to sounds creating by dog!)
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Exactly:) Saussure’s ideas will always be present. However, for me idea of word arbitrariness is a bit frightening. How in that case can we reach a hole agreement in using words? Here we can also remember Wittgenstein‘s idea of “ a beetle in a box”, maybe it’s true and we live in world of only own meanings and can not understand, whether your friend saying dog don’t think about something else
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You might be alluding the Ferdinand de Saussure's idea about the arbitrariness of language. His example is the word "tree".
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