What Is Called Thinking?

What Is Called Thinking?

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Why Does Attribution Affect Meaning?

The Ontology of Quotation

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Mar 30, 2021
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Why does it matter so much who says something? Shouldn’t we take the words on their own terms?

“Believe in yourself”

-Bob Marley

“Believe in yourself”

-Pol Pot

“Believe in yourself”

-Ancient Chinese Fragment, found on papyrus

“Believe in yourself”

-drunk stranger at a bar

“Believe in yourself”

-GPT-3

Why do these sayings strike us so differently? (I’m not the fir…

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