The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounce
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The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conc
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had freq
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In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while gras
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Certainly, then, ordinary language is not the last word: in
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Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connections they have found worth ma
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In the history of human inquiry, philosophy has the place of the initial central sun, seminal and tumultuous; from time to time it
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To suppose that "I know" is a descriptive phrase, is only one example of the descriptive fallacy, so common in philosophy. Even if
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The criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifyability. We say that a
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To anyone who still feels that there must be an identity of logical form between language and reality, I can only plead that the c
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