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Their decisions therefore stabilise meaning through power, procedure, and constraint, not through final moral convergence.\nThis is not a work of relativism, nihilism, or political quietism. It does not deny harm, law, or the necessity of judgment. Instead, it asks what follows once we stop pretending that better definitions, more dialogue, or procedural refinement can settle conflicts whose roots lie beneath language itself.\nWhen Language Fails offers a rigorous and unsettling framework for readers interested in philosophy of language, moral pluralism, ontology, epistemology, jurisprudence, political theory, and the limits of liberal resolution. 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