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Mitchell, R., Less Than Words Can Say, Boston, Massachusetts, Little, Brown and Company, 1979. Google
17 ;;Quote: keeping modifier near the modified thing is a property of our minds; not a rule of English
27 ;;Quote: "primitive" people assume an underlying reality that is more complicated and elaborate than ours
27 ;;Quote: all languages are anchored in other worlds rather than in sensible experience
42 ;;Quote: discussing the rain acknowledges our kinship without evoking other worlds where kinship may be questionable
44 ;;Quote: the rules of writing are rules because they work; like keeping your eye on the ball
114 ;;Quote: we cannot abandon magic; our language assumes the existence of abstract entities; so with mankind and gravity comes Lady Luck and fate
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Topic: writing (32 items)
Topic: models of reality (33 items)
Topic: sociology (11 items)
Topic: problems with empirical truth (21 items)
Group: natural language (16 topics, 531 quotes)
Topic: abstraction (62 items)
Topic: meaning without reference (31 items)
Topic: rules (43 items)