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... words that reveal actions : " Wanna go ! " " Momma come ! " And all the while , language is shaping our lives . We learn that there are words we say at home which we should never say in public . There are " men's " words and there are ...
... words that reveal actions : " Wanna go ! " " Momma come ! " And all the while , language is shaping our lives . We learn that there are words we say at home which we should never say in public . There are " men's " words and there are ...
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... word ; ( 4 ) several different words can represent the same idea simultaneously , but several different sums of money cannot represent a single good simultaneously ; ( 5 ) two sums of money can be compared quantitatively , but words are ...
... word ; ( 4 ) several different words can represent the same idea simultaneously , but several different sums of money cannot represent a single good simultaneously ; ( 5 ) two sums of money can be compared quantitatively , but words are ...
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... words exist only to give us a grasp on meaning ; once meaning has been grasped , he says , we may get rid of words . Jonathan Chaves gives us this poem by Yang Wan - li , who wrote some fourteen centuries after Chuang : Now , what is ...
... words exist only to give us a grasp on meaning ; once meaning has been grasped , he says , we may get rid of words . Jonathan Chaves gives us this poem by Yang Wan - li , who wrote some fourteen centuries after Chuang : Now , what is ...
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The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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