Max Müller & the Philosophy of LanguageLongmans, Green, & Company, 1879 - 102 pages |
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... speaking of the con- troversy , of such supreme scientific importance , between Cuvier and Geoffroy de St. Hilaire , which has at last broken out openly in the Academy . From henceforward , in France as elsewhere , natural science will ...
... speaking of the con- troversy , of such supreme scientific importance , between Cuvier and Geoffroy de St. Hilaire , which has at last broken out openly in the Academy . From henceforward , in France as elsewhere , natural science will ...
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... speak , he will remain brutish ; while the rudest human waif from the most savage tribe will promptly acquire from human intercourse this first cha- racteristic of humanity . ' With these weighty arguments our hero confronted ...
... speak , he will remain brutish ; while the rudest human waif from the most savage tribe will promptly acquire from human intercourse this first cha- racteristic of humanity . ' With these weighty arguments our hero confronted ...
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... speak of the ' thinking power of animals . ' Concepts cannot be formed without the help of words . The sound , the word , is the body of the con- cept ; language is thus the external side , the body of thought or reason . Thus it was ...
... speak of the ' thinking power of animals . ' Concepts cannot be formed without the help of words . The sound , the word , is the body of the con- cept ; language is thus the external side , the body of thought or reason . Thus it was ...
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... speak of what I scarcely know ; but the soul when thinking appears to me to be just talking — asking questions of herself and answering them , affirming and denying . ” 999 1 And how then does mankind come to lose this instinctive ...
... speak of what I scarcely know ; but the soul when thinking appears to me to be just talking — asking questions of herself and answering them , affirming and denying . ” 999 1 And how then does mankind come to lose this instinctive ...
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... sense : 2 ' In all this there is no doubt great truth , yet , strictly 1 Lectures on the Science of Language , vol . ii . p . 73 2 Ib . p . 76 . speaking , it is as impossible to use words without 38 The Philosophy of Language .
... sense : 2 ' In all this there is no doubt great truth , yet , strictly 1 Lectures on the Science of Language , vol . ii . p . 73 2 Ib . p . 76 . speaking , it is as impossible to use words without 38 The Philosophy of Language .
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