Jeet Heer has mastered the art of confidently using pretentious words he doesn't understand, knowing that most people will be too intimidated to challenge him and risk looking stupid. But some of us know what gestalt means, and that ain't it.
Okay, put aside Pinker. Find me the most modern up-to-date guide to linguistics and show me where it says that academic words borrowed from other languages cannot take on different vernacular meanings.
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Talk about goalpost moving... but sure. Pick any theory of semantics that restricts the domain to a particular range of idiolects (in this case, academic idiolects), take the conditions of use to be parasitic on that domain of idiolects, and you get a copacetic theory.
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So that just gives you most localized relational semantics, historicist semantics, and all of the externalist-inferentialist hybrids... the combination doesn’t give you a plurality of the views in contemporary semantics, but a decent chunk of externalist views.
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No one ever said they couldn’t......
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It is true that descriptively speaking, that change can vary according to the context in which language is used. For an example of how this may differ, you can just look at the term “liberal” in political philosophy vs. popular usage
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