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Warburton, and me, David Edmonds.
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Imagine that.
I'd said to Nigel after an interview, that was the best philosophy bites interview we've ever conducted.
Perhaps I was being ironic or sarcastic, but perhaps I meant it literally.
If you had more information, you might be able to work out my meaning, say, if you'd heard my tone of voice, or if you'd been sitting in on the interview, too.
So what is the relationship between meaning and context?
We spoke to Emma Borg to put her into context.
She's an expert on the philosophy of language.
Emma Borg, welcome to philosophy Bites.
Thank you very much.
Delighted to be here.
The topic we're going to focus on is language and context.
Now, what's context got to do with language?
Okay, I mean, that's a good question.
So let's think about maybe a question that comes slightly before that.
Let's think about what it would be to understand a language.