Linguistics as a science

Language Distinguishes Humans from the Rest of Nature

If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago have been made ... We have failed not for lack of hypotheses which equate man with the rest of the universe, but for lack of a hypothesis (short of animism) which provides for the…

Jan 18, 2012 1

• animism
• language
• linguistics