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lubesGordi on Dec 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: E-Prime: English without the verb 'to be'

This helps achieve the objective in general semantics of 'silence on the objective level.' In other words, that none of us have access to reality unfiltered by our senses and our linguistic programs, so it is best to not make statements that assume we do.

pmoriarty on Dec 7, 2015 [–]

"none of us have access to reality unfiltered by our senses and our linguistic programs"

That sounds like a statement about "reality unfiltered by our senses and our linguistic programs".

It's not uncontroversial either, as lots of people have in fact claimed to have just such access.

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