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Language Rights and Wrongs: Is Language Truthful?

Language Rights and Wrongs: Is Language Truthful?

Update: 2023-10-13
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Does language contain truth in itself? And whether or not it does, at what level are the words we use natural, and at what level are they a matter of convention? Plato’s Cratylus provides the earliest in-depth discussion of these matters, and it turns out that we can learn something about our own linguistic problems today by considering this neglected dialogue.

On October 3, 2023, the Morningside Institute and the Galileo Center at Columbia Law School hosted Joshua Katz (AEI) for his second lecture in our Fall 2023 series Language Rights and Wrongs.

For more information about upcoming events, please visit https://www.morningsideinstitute.org.

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Language Rights and Wrongs: Is Language Truthful?

Language Rights and Wrongs: Is Language Truthful?

Nathaniel Ijams