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Philosophers and bookish people generally tend to live a life dominated by words, and even to forget that it is the essential function of words to have a connection of one sort or another with facts, which are in general non-linguistic. ...
Language consists of sensible phenomena just as much as eating or walking, and if we can know nothing about facts we cannot know what other people say or even what we are saying ourselves. Language, like other acquired ways of behaving, consists of useful habits and has none of the mystery with which it is often surrounded.
Source: My Philosophical Development, 1959, by Bertrand Russell
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