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The entire intellectual purport of any symbol consists in the total of all general modes of rational conduct which, conditionally upon all the possible different circumstances and desires, would ensue upon the acceptance of the symbol.

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user90588 6 months, 2 weeks ago
me trying to understand this:
- "The entire intellectual purport of any symbol"
Intellectuals believe _ but the writer disagrees?

- what is a general mode? Normal Behavior?

"conditionally upon all the possible different circumstances and desires, would ensue upon the acceptance of the symbol."
I think I need context for what this symbol is in order to make sense of this
what I'm getting so far is:
"Intellectuals falsely see it as a given that ____ symbol represents ___ behavior that most people will consider normal"
or
"intellectuals falsely claim that symbols are a product of normal behaviors"
Geroge Orwell would have loved reading this

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