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    Challenges→Non-linguistic arts sometimes express meanings and thoughts that are not (yet) linguistically articulable.

    If early Greek sculpture expressed religious ideas later articulated linguistically, the most parsimonious explanation is that the ideas were already present in shared social practices with implicit linguistic structure, not that they transcended language.

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    implicit / implicitly(as used to describe hidden meaning or structure)
    Suggested or contained within something without being directly stated or obvious.
    linguistic structure(as used in philosophy of language)
    The organized patterns and rules that make language work, like grammar and how words connect to form meaning.
    parsimonious / parsimony(as used in logic and reasoning)
    The simplest explanation that fits the facts is usually the best one, rather than inventing complicated extra ideas.
    social practices(as used in explaining how culture and meaning develop)
    Shared habits, rituals, or ways of doing things that a group of people regularly performs together.
    transcended language(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of mind)

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