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For a large class of cases — though not for all — in which we employ the word “meaning” it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Every civilization tends to overestimate the objective orientation of its thought and this tendency is never absent. When we make the mistake of thinking that the Savage is governed solely by organic or economic needs, we forget that he levels the same reproach at us, and that to him his own desire for knowledge seems more balanced than ours…45
Claude Levi-Strauss
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Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962), p. 3.
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© 1973 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Binkley, T. (1973). Natural History. In: Wittgenstein’s Language. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2450-1_8
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