摘要：So claimed philosopher Hilary Putnam over twenty years ago in his famous paper ‘The Meaning of ‘Meaning’’. This quotation outlines Putnam’s ‘division of linguistic labour’. The idea is that language represents a social phenomenon. The meanings for all the words we use are not stored in each of our heads, rather, language is part of the global consciousness: when we use certain terms, we tap into the knowledge that other people have – and we lack
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