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In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary
philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necess ...
Saul Kripke
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Let's call something a rigid designator if in every possible world it designates the same object, a non-rigid or accidental design ...
Saul Kripke
reference | naming | semantics
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Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose mea ...
Saul Kripke
possibility | world, the
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Then for the Style; Majestick and Divine,
It speaks no less than God in every Line: ...
John Dryden
God
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Which I wish to remark--
And my language is plain-- ...
Bret Harte
Chinese, the | language | truth
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And there's the half-talk code of mysteries
And the wink-and-elbow language of delight.
Patrick Kavanagh
conversation | mystery | code
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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 ...
Henry David Thoreau
literature | language
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So, too, no doubt, Homer had his Homer, and Orpheus his Orpheus, in the dim antiquity which preceded them. The mythological system ...
Henry David Thoreau
poetry | poets | classics, the | Homer
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard
language
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Man is an organism with a wonderful and extraordinary past. He is distinguished from the other animals by virtue of the fact that ...
Edward T. Hall
animals | humankind
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