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[sophiaserpentia]

[Poll #621813]

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[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

The question is a classic case study from the philosophy of language, and deals with the way words hold meaning. From the positivist perspective, a word's meaning is tied to the objective accuracy of what it points to -- and therefore (again from the positivist view) the truth value of any statement has to take into account whether the words point to things that really exist.

[ubiquity.livejournal.com]

Ugh! Logical positivism drives me up the wall! (:

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Me too. Proof that asinine over-literalism and myopic statement-parsing are not confined to fundamentalism!

[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

But unicorns *do* exist! :)