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Ideas for 'Reasons for Actions and Desires', 'Mirror Mirror - Is That All?' and 'Ways of Worldmaking'

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

17651	Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman]
	Full Idea: We can have words without a world but no world without words or other symbols.
	From: Nelson Goodman (Ways of Worldmaking [1978], 1.3)
	A reaction: Goodman seems to have a particularly extreme version of the commitment to philosophy as linguistic. Non-human animals have no world, it seems.