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Speaking and spoken speech

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Merleau-Ponty distinguishes emerging articulation from use of acquired meanings. Expressive success does not guarantee truth, and vocal fluency is not a test of thought.

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Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world · Lesson 7 of 9
When expression helps a thought take shape
Merleau-Ponty argues that expression can accomplish a thought rather than record a meaning already complete. The lesson distinguishes acquired language from emerging meaning, and both from truth.

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Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world
Follow Husserl and Merleau-Ponty from the appearance of a familiar thing to time, bodily skill, expression and other people. Test what their descriptions establish, where their methods differ and what still needs evidence or an ethical argument.