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Languages and Linguistics

multigraincracker

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1. The word is a symbol, not the thing.

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Wed Jan 3, 2024, 10:53 AM

Jan 2024

Like a flag, it’s a symbol and not th thing. Yet wars are fought over symbols like flags and boarders that are not real.
Opposites arise together. There would be no up without a down, no good without bad, they define each other.

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