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The way words mean
26 mins | Sep 20, 2019
Words stand for things in the world, and they stand apart from it. Perhaps the meaning is more sunken into words than we realise? Alexander Stern writing in Aeon magazine delves into the science of language, investigating how deeply meaning is connected to the nature of the words denoting it.
