Jargon is your Frenemy!
Great Pyramid of Giza, via Wikimedia Commons NOTE: An edited version of this article appeared on The Skeptic (UK). “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, section 5.6 Language may be the most powerful tool we have, and I believe it must be used responsibly. But what is language? What’s a tool? What does it mean to use it responsibly? Such questions are deceptively simple, because “everyone knows” what langu
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