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positivistic view of language




Alvin Kimel writes:

>I'd still like to know what a "positivistic view of language" is.

I suspect what is meant is the view that words and sentences may
be regarded as having a precise meaning which is independent of
social, historical, and perhaps even linguistic context.  

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