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“The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.”[1] This is William James at the beginning of the 20th century. He was ruminating on the relationship between language and perception because he was trying to figure out how to More

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[1]https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/13/control-over-capitalism-or-techno-feudalism-means-getting-control-over-language/[2]https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/13/control-over-capitalism-or-techno-feudalism-means-getting-control-over-language/[3]https://www.counterpunch.org/