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An essay on the origin of language, based on modern researches, and especially on the works of M. Renan

Note 204 — Chapter VII · WORDS NOTHING IN THEMSELVES.

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“There still remains the question, ‘Do things as they are resemble things as they are conceived by us?’—a question which we cannot answer either in the affirmative or in the negative; for the denial, as much as the assertion, implies a comparison of the two,” (which is impossible, if they are absolutely unknown). Mansell’s Metaphysics, p. 354.

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