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Day: April 12, 2017
euhemerism
Michael Masiello’s answer to Was God a person? No, but it is refreshing to see someone flirt with euhemerism on Quora. Euhemerism – Wikipedia Euhemerism is an approach to the interpretation of mythology in which mythological accounts are presumed to have originated from real historical events or personages. Euhemerism supposes that historical accounts become myths […]
What is the meaning of meaning, philosophically speaking?
I’m going to give the linguistic meaning of meaning; certain (old school) philosophers would accept it as an answer, and Gottlob Frege, who came up with the crucial distinction, is considered a philosopher and not a linguist. (Back in the 1890s, linguists weren’t really doing semantics.) Language is a code. A code is a system […]