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Conceptual historians of various stripes asked after the origins of ideas, but they sought them by tracing the changing meanings of words across different socio-historical contexts. My concern, by contrast, is with the practical origins of ideas: with the ways in which the ideas we live by can be shown to be rooted in practical needs and concerns generated by certain facts about us and our situation.
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― The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering
― The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering
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Radical Pragmatics – “words are fluid, and can mean different things in different circumstances. […] And what we draw upon in memory is not a lexicon of definitions but a network of associations among words and the kinds of events and actors they typically convey.
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― The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
― The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
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