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Jiang's account of Socrates' critique: language lets humans communicate but does not directly mirror reality.
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language as convention
Jiang's account of Socrates' critique: language lets humans communicate but does not directly mirror reality.
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"...language does not capture the truth okay language is just a convention we have to in order for us to communicate okay but it's..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central turn: Socrates attacks democracy by exposing the weakness of language and reason, then Plato rescues Socrates by turning the cave into a martyr story, a Christian universe,...
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