| 1873 - 824 pages
...possible, or, at least, are concepts ever realised without some outward form or body ? I say decidedly, No. If the Science of Language has proved anything, it...discursive thought can be carried on in words only. There is no thought without words, as little as there are words witJwut thought. We can, by abstraction,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 pages
...possible, or, at least, are concepts ever realised without some outward form or body ? I say decidedly, No. If the Science of Language has proved anything, it...discursive thought can be carried on in words only. There is no thought without words, as little as there are words •without thought. We can, by abstraction,... | |
| 1873 - 808 pages
...possible, or, at least, are concepts ever realised without some outward form or body ? I say decidedly, No. If the Science of Language has proved anything, it...discursive thought can be carried on in words only. There is no thought without words, as little as there are words without thought. We can, by abstraction,... | |
| 1873 - 842 pages
...PrixcifUs, p. 7* least, are concepts ever realized without some form or outward body ? I say decidedly, No. If the Science of Language has proved anything, it has proved that concepual or discursive thought can be carried on in words only. There is no thought without words,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1874 - 520 pages
...under the full review of consciousness. Miiller answers his question in the negative, and goes on : " If the Science of Language has proved anything, it...thought can be carried on in words only." Here again he limits " thought " in such a way as to render his meaning unclear without some explanation. Perhaps... | |
| 1875 - 1012 pages
...Until something new is said on that old subject, I must be allowed to remain myself deaf and dumb.* Then comes the final and decisive charge. I had said...a strong array of authorities — not, indeed, to crush free inquiry, but to direct it to those channels where it had been carried on before. I quoted... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1875 - 644 pages
...had been proved that our words could be derived directly from imitative and interjectional sounds. If the Science of Language has proved anything, it has proved that this is not the case. We know that, with certain exceptions, about which there can be little controversy,... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1876 - 590 pages
...questions might be considered as closed, or, if they were to be l Fiske, Outlinet of Cosmic Philosophy, vol. ip 17. re-opened, that at least the controversy...before. I quoted Locke, I quoted Schelling, Hegel, Wilhehn von Humboldt, Schopenhauer, and Mansel — philosophers diametrically opposed to each other... | |
| 1876 - 944 pages
...profession of the etymologist would be gone for ever ? I say, No, most emphatically, to both propositions. If the science of language has proved anything, it has proved that all languages change according to law, and with considerable uniformity. If, therefore, the writing... | |
| Isaac Pitman - 1878 - 344 pages
...profession of the etymologist would be gone for ever ? I say, No, most emphatically, to both propositions. If the science of language has proved anything, it has proved that all languages change according to law, and with considerable uniformity. If, therefore, the writing... | |
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