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Call Doesn’t Humpty Dumptying Foolishness Linguistic Ontological Relativism Exposed

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Back For example, the foolishness of linguistic ontological relativism is exposed by the old riddle of how many legs does a dog have if you call a tail ‘a leg’. The answer is four: it doesn’t matter what you call a tail, that doesn’t make it a leg.

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