| George Boole - 1854 - 464 páginas
...SCIENCE OF LOGIC IN PARTICULAR ; ALSO OF THE LAWS TO WHICH THAT CLASS OF SIGNS ARE SUBJECT. 1 • nPH AT Language is an instrument of human reason, and -*-...Language, considered as a system adapted to an end or pur[K>se ; to investigate its elements ; to seek to determine their mutual relation and dependence... | |
| 1865 - 980 páginas
...instrument of reasoning. This idea may, perhaps, be better given in his own language : — " That langnage is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a...expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. . . . The elements of which all language consibts are signs or symbols. Words are signs. ... A sign... | |
| James Gasser - 2000 - 374 páginas
...as an instrument of reasoning. This idea may, perhaps, be better given in his own language: — That language is an instrument of human reason, and not...expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. . . . The elements of which all language consists are signs or symbols. Words are signs. ... A sign... | |
| Stewart Shapiro, William J. Wainwright - 2005 - 850 páginas
...Boole, something like this view had become common among early and mid-nineteenth-century thinkers. That language is an instrument of human reason, and not...expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. . . . whether we regard signs as the representatives of things and of their relations, or as the representatives... | |
| William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1859 - 606 páginas
...process, and destroy all gronnd of confidence in the result.' — J. ti. Mill, Logic, \.,\. ' That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thonght, is a truth generally admitted It is the business of science to investigate laws ; and, whether... | |
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