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... language , for ex- ample , is a complex entity consisting of at least two separate components , a material component , the thought , and a struc- tural component , the language in which the thought is expressed . Further , we may ...
... language , for ex- ample , is a complex entity consisting of at least two separate components , a material component , the thought , and a struc- tural component , the language in which the thought is expressed . Further , we may ...
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... language . A natural language , even a highly developed one like English , will be much poorer and much less complex than the world which it maps . To take one obvious example , there are , according to the experimental psychologists ...
... language . A natural language , even a highly developed one like English , will be much poorer and much less complex than the world which it maps . To take one obvious example , there are , according to the experimental psychologists ...
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... language is that no one could ever memorize a language which consisted entirely of proper names . And he adds that , even if it were possible , such a language would be useless for communication . " This cannot be done by names applied ...
... language is that no one could ever memorize a language which consisted entirely of proper names . And he adds that , even if it were possible , such a language would be useless for communication . " This cannot be done by names applied ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
The Aim and Method of Lockes Theory | 23 |
Ideas and Experience | 41 |
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