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Communicating with aliens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2009

Derrick Farnell
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Abstract

Wittgenstein once said that if a lion could speak, we would not be able to understand it. No doubt he would say the same about aliens. But is Wittgenstein correct? Derrick Farnell thinks not.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 5 , Issue 14 , Winter 2007 , pp. 79 - 92
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2007

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3 see note 1

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