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Paperback Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists Book

ISBN: 0262548461

ISBN13: 9780262548465

Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists

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Language is said to be humankind's greatest accomplishment. But what is language actually good for? It performs poorly at representing reality. It is a constant source of distraction, misdirection, and overshadowing. In fact, N.J. Enfield notes, language is far better at persuasion than it is at objectively capturing the facts of experience. Language cannot create or change physical reality, but it can do the next best thing: reframe and invert our...

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