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Page 64
... philosophers . Modern grammatical influences . In the 1950s the sci- ence of linguistics itself rose to the challenges that had been coming chiefly from philosophical quarters . The de- velopment of transformational , or generative ...
... philosophers . Modern grammatical influences . In the 1950s the sci- ence of linguistics itself rose to the challenges that had been coming chiefly from philosophical quarters . The de- velopment of transformational , or generative ...
Page 84
... philosophical observations ; hymns , incantations , and mys- terious songs of priests ; and finally actual mythology— stories of the origin of the world and the human race , of the great dead , and of the gods and demigods . Epic . The ...
... philosophical observations ; hymns , incantations , and mys- terious songs of priests ; and finally actual mythology— stories of the origin of the world and the human race , of the great dead , and of the gods and demigods . Epic . The ...
Page 181
... philosophical specu- lation , and psychoanalysis , the conviction that objectivity could be maintained by a scholar dealing with the past came to be questioned and in large measure renounced . The Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce's ...
... philosophical specu- lation , and psychoanalysis , the conviction that objectivity could be maintained by a scholar dealing with the past came to be questioned and in large measure renounced . The Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce's ...
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