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Default Re: linguistic theories (grammar, language)

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Originally Posted by bianca
... take the example I gave with the prisoners encapsulated in a sensory deprivation tank, with no external stimuli whatsoever - they experience hallucinations, mind-twistedness and so on.

What do you think?
But the hallucinations stem from experience. In other words, the vacuum is after the fact, so experience can't be ruled out or voided, even in a sensory deprivation tank.
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