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Bias words

Author(s): Odette Barbero
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Classiques Garnier
Keywords: origin of languages; word-tool; Descartes; Condillac; Leibniz.

Summary/Abstract: Words are tools which depend on social, spatio-temporal, and linguistic environments, have a history, and produce psychological, political, and paradigmatic effects. The stakes implicit in their conservation and classification are high and, despite modernday technology and the primacy of the image, they remain, as Descartes would have it, the mark of humanity.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 87-106
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: French