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The following article is my attempt to analyze the connotations of the word ‘Fundamentality.’ I have given as much emphasis to the nature of language and linguistics as I have to our current position as far as the physical sciences are concerned. By the end of it, it is my hope that the reader knows exactly what he is talking about when he uses the aforementioned word, and that the knowledge which was made in him extremely implicit becomes explicitly known.
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Dwarkesh, A. (2019). ‘Fundamentality’ as a Linguistic Paradigm and Linguistics as a Fundamental Paradigm. In: Aguirre, A., Foster, B., Merali, Z. (eds) What is Fundamental?. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11301-8_16
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