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          id: 12629
      author: Sapir, Edward
       title: Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
        date: None
       words: 78758
      flesch: 59
     summary: It is important to observe that the subjective form of _illa_ and _alba_, does not truly define a relation of these qualifying concepts to _femina_. In our sentence the concepts of _farm_ and _duck_ are not really involved at all; they are merely latent, for formal reasons, in the linguistic expression.
    keywords: case; change; concepts; concrete; culture; drift; elements; english; expression; fact; feeling; footnote; form; french; german; group; history; house; individual; influence; instance; language; latin; linguistic; long; new; noun; number; phonetic; plural; point; present; process; relational; sense; sentence; significance; sounds; speech; subject; tendency; thought; time; type; use; value; verb; word; | |
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        item: #2 of 5
          id: 15649
      author: Besnier, Pierre
       title: A Philosophicall Essay for the Reunion of the Languages Or, The Art of Knowing All by the Mastery of One
        date: None
       words: 10532
      flesch: 24
     summary: Reason_ being the two faculties, that can reflect upon their objects, they both will appear in the present designe in their uses suitable to their nature, the effects of _Imagination_ shall be visible in the severall resemblances, and the inferences that are thence made; and it will be the worke of _Reason_ to reduce all to certain principles, upon which the argumentative part must relye. My sense is much the same of other Languages, but because reason it selfe may be suspected by some, especially if at any time it appear too just or plausible, I was the rather concern'd
    keywords: designe; hath; language; manner; nature; principles; reason; relation; selfe; time; tis; use; words; world
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        item: #3 of 5
          id: 1616
      author: Plato
       title: Cratylus
        date: None
       words: 53085
      flesch: 67
     summary: But he does not see that 'habit and repute,' and their relation to other words, are always exercising an influence over them. We may learn something also from the falterings of old age, the searching for words, and the confusion of them with one another, the forgetfulness of proper names (more commonly than of other words because they are more isolated), aphasia, and the like.
    keywords: cratylus; expression; form; gods; good; hermogenes; imitation; knowledge; language; letters; man; meaning; men; mind; motion; names; nature; plato; power; principle; rest; right; saying; sense; socrates; sort; soul; sound; speech; things; time; true; truth; use; view; way; words; work; world
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        item: #4 of 5
          id: 18818
      author: Powell, John Wesley
       title: On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16
        date: None
       words: 6696
      flesch: 57
     summary: In the _Pavänt_ language a school-house is called _pó-kûnt-în-îñ-yî-kän_. They might, therefore, with some propriety, have been called adjective particles, but these elements perform another function; they serve the purpose which is usually called _agreement in language_; that is, they make the verb agree with the subject and object, and thus indicate the syntactic relation between subject, object, and verb.
    keywords: indian; language; particles; verb; words
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        item: #5 of 5
          id: 9306
      author: Croce, Benedetto
       title: Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
        date: None
       words: 99680
      flesch: 56
     summary: The impossibility of choice of content completes the theorem of the _independence of art_, and is also the only legitimate meaning of the expression: _art for art's sake_. It is important to make clear that as the existence of the hedonistic side in every spiritual activity has given rise to the confusion between the aesthetic activity and the useful or pleasurable, so the existence, or, better, the possibility of constructing this physical side, has generated the confusion between _aesthetic_ expression and expression _in the naturalistic sense_; between a spiritual fact, that is to say, and a mechanical and passive fact (not to say, between a concrete reality and an abstraction or fiction).
    keywords: action; activity; aesthetic; art; artist; beauty; case; century; concept; content; criticism; critique; expression; fact; feeling; form; good; history; human; ideas; imagination; impressions; individual; intellectual; intuition; knowledge; language; life; logic; man; means; moral; nature; object; order; philosophy; physical; place; pleasure; poetry; problem; reality; reason; science; second; sense; spirit; taste; theory; things; thought; time; truth; ugly; use; value; view; way; word; work
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