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Overall, western philosophy has witnessed two significant turns. The first is the epistemological turn from the seventeenth century onwards, with Rene Descartes’ philosophy as the turning point. In essence, it is the shift from an ontological inquiry into the origin of the world to an epistemological inquiry into “how man gets to know”. Since then, reason had gained its supremacy in philosophy. The second is the linguistic turn that took place at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Dong, X., Zhang, Y. (2023). Research on Legal Language. In: On the Standardization of Chinese Legislative Language. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2633-6_3
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