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Concepts
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In an absolute vacuum, no space and time exist as actualities except as potential. If there is no world or universe, there is no space and time in our interpretation of these words and concepts. But, if there is no space, there is no world and no time.
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Linguistic communication is wholly dependent on the prior idiosyncratic manners in which its speakers and hearers have previously come to grasp the contingent world patterns to which words dumbly point. The link that conveys something of the contents of the world through a speaker’s linguistic token and on to a hearer’s understanding is wholly indirect, passing mandatorily through whatever has been separately understood by speaker and hearer of the structure of the world itself. This might be pu
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