A philosopher notes three areas in which
linguistic philosophy could broaden itself: 16 (1) broaden the verifiability principle so as to make other experiences besides sense experience possible, (2) abandon the viewpoint that would reduce all
meaning of things to present or actual fact, and (3) pay more attention to conceptual frameworks through which we seek to apprehend the world.
This explains why friends will reach for phrases like The same
thing happened to me and I know just what you
mean, Deborah Tannen, Ph.D., a professor
of linguistics at Georgetown University and the author
of last year's You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language
of Women's Friendships, tells Health.