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  1. Jun 2025
  2. May 2025
    1. Karl Abel’s book Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words]

      for - timebinding - Karl Abel - Sigmund Freud - Gebser - book - Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words] - language construction - book - Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words]

  3. Apr 2017
    1. which developed naturally

      "Natural development" here seems to imply that there are types of language that are not constructed, but of course we can use cultural context to intuit that she does not mean "natural" as the opposite of constructed but to mean something closer to "just as valid as other language, which is all constructed and ever-evolving."

  4. Nov 2013
    1. In the same way that the sound appears as a sand figure, so the mysterious X of the thing in itself first appears as a nerve stimulus, then as an image, and finally as a sound. Thus the genesis of language does not proceed logically in any case, and all the material within and with which the man of truth, the scientist, and the philosopher later work and build, if not derived from never-never land, is a least not derived from the essence of things.

      It's fascinating to consider how if our language had been constructed differently... based on, somehow, a logical reasoning of stimuli... mankind would think entirely differently.