ILN EP 152: The Beetle In The Box - Listen - I Learned Nothing

ILN EP 152: The Beetle In The Box

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Pat was feeling trapped so Ben tuned him on to the wacky linguistic thought experiment developed by Ben's Main Man Ludwig Wittgenstein. Are humans capable of having a private language? Not just shibboleth for your crew but a private language only YOU know about? Wittgenstein says NO, you idiot. And it has something to do with a beetle in a box. F**k you.

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