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14789461 No.14789461 [Reply] [Original]

How do you explain the phenomena of people restricting the meaning of their words and symbols to "sources" like webster's/google dictionary?

I mean in any conversation or discourse, when two people clearly hold different understandings of the symbols they are communicating, but fail to recognize it and instead argue over arbitrary semantic definitions.

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>>14789461
You've just been
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The post structuralists and deconstructionists wrote a lot about the inevitability of precisely this