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Nov 9Liked by Kurt Keefner

The problem I see is people identifying themselves with their ideas, and words; first, with their conscious thinking, and more specifically still, with propositions about the world — mostly composed by others — which they have heard and adopted, often only because others have said and repeated them, implicitly regarding these word-propositions as important and valuable.

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Thanks for reading! Can you give me an example of the ideas and words people identify with?

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