Excerpts from a treatise on language.(Excerpt)

From: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

... if theories are merely human contrivances, by which we artificially associate sensible realities, and artificially account by familiar processes for their production, what can we know more than the information which our sense and internal experience reveal? This question is important. It seems also to be misunderstood by every description of persons. The wise and the simple, the learned and the ignorant, propound questions without knowing what will constitute a solution; and investigate nature without knowing when to be satisfied. (p.238)

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