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... natural or congruous meanings , bases his comedy on the fact that there are other esoteric signs , the meanings of which are as arbitrary as the meanings imposed upon words . Such were the kabbalistic signs used between Solomon and the ...
... natural or congruous meanings , bases his comedy on the fact that there are other esoteric signs , the meanings of which are as arbitrary as the meanings imposed upon words . Such were the kabbalistic signs used between Solomon and the ...
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... natural in respect to their etymology . He wanted all names to have been imposed in the light of an appropriateness found in the thing named : lapis ( a stone ) , for example , as though meaning laedens pedem ( hurting the foot ) ...
... natural in respect to their etymology . He wanted all names to have been imposed in the light of an appropriateness found in the thing named : lapis ( a stone ) , for example , as though meaning laedens pedem ( hurting the foot ) ...
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... natural meaning of any words in any language . It was an established assumption that statements in the Cratylus about real natural connexions between names and things applied especially , but not exclusively , to proper names . The ...
... natural meaning of any words in any language . It was an established assumption that statements in the Cratylus about real natural connexions between names and things applied especially , but not exclusively , to proper names . The ...
Contents
Chapter One Humanist Comedy | 1 |
Chapter Two Rabelais before Pantagruel | 15 |
Chapter Three Pantagruel | 24 |
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