 | 1862 - Počet stránok 822
...by imitative founds, and the hypothesis of its having arisen as a series of interjection. He affirms that every word is originally a predicate; that names,...all, without exception, derived from general ideas. On this point we are dubious ; yet he considers it to be one of the most important discoveries in the... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1861 - Počet stránok 422
...when Von Hammer counts 5744 words relating to the camel.* * Farrar, Origin of Language, p. 85. The fact that every word is originally a predicate, that...characteristic of man; it was known also that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes ; but that these two... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - Počet stránok 454
...only gather from such isolated cases as when Von Hammer counts 5744 words relating to the camel.1 The fact that every word is originally a predicate, that...characteristic of man ; it was known also that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes ; but that these two... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - Počet stránok 452
...gather from such isolated cases as when Yon Hammer counts 5,744 words relating to the camel.* The feet that every word is originally a predicate — that...characteristic of man ; it was known also that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes; but that these two... | |
 | 1862 - Počet stránok 1092
...he consider* it to be one 1862.] A Box of Books. of the most important discoveries in the science. It was known before that language is the distinguishing...that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brntes ; but that these two were only different expressions of the came fact was not known till the... | |
 | 1863 - Počet stránok 734
...theory of the origin of language, Prof. Miiller unfolds his doctrine of roots. " The fact." bays he, " that every word is originally a predicate; that names,...general ideas; is one of the most important discoveries of the science of language. It was known before, that language is the distinguishing characteristic... | |
 | Anthropological Society of London - 1866 - Počet stránok 802
...at the expense, however, of much which they may suppose to he essential to them. The latter affirms that "names, though signs of individual conceptions, are all, without exception, derived from ideas," the general being the first thing really known, and that every word " expresses a general idea... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1867 - Počet stránok 264
...meaning of sun ? The begetter. What is the meaning of earth ? The ploughed." And still again, " The fact that every word is originally a predicate, that...important discoveries in the science of language." Now this assumption, so quietly and yet so confidently employed in this reasoning, is utterly baseless.... | |
 | William Roscoe Burgess - 1869 - Počet stránok 92
...cows and sheep, was pa&u, the Latin pecus, which means feeders." The same author goes on to say, " The fact that every word is originally a predicate : —...without exception, derived from general ideas, is one of i Science of Language, Vol. ip 382. In the first sentence of the passage quoted above, 1 find a difficulty... | |
 | Anthropological Society of London - 1866 - Počet stránok 802
...at the expense, however, of much which they may suppose to be essential to them. The latter affirms that "names, though signs of individual conceptions,...all, without exception, derived from general ideas," the general being the first thing really known, and that every word " expresses a general idea peculiar... | |
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The fact that every word is originally a predicate, that names, though signs of individual conceptions, are all, without exception, derived from general ideas, is one of the most important discoveries in the science of language. 
