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  1. Noam Chomsky (1928 – ) Noam Chomsky is an American linguist who has had a profound impact on philosophy. Chomsky’s linguistic work has been motivated by the observation that nearly all adult human beings have the ability to effortlessly produce and understand a potentially infinite number of sentences. For instance, it is very likely that ...

  2. Aug 22, 2013 · An author's or artist's important work that shows her potential and reflects later development is often referred to as a seminal work. containing or contributing the seeds of later development : creative, original a seminal book. SUPPLEMENT. An artist's most significant work is often referred to as a chef d'oeuvre

  3. Sp Coll Bi7-a.8-9. This month we take a look at what is widely believed to be the first modern English dictionary, Samuel Johnson's A dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of ...

  4. Dec 13, 2005 · Grice is a well-known critic of ordinary language philosophy, and one of his main targets was J. L. Austin and a style of reasoning he popularized. Austin thought there was a relatively clear notion of what it is inappropriate to say, and that we could delineate truth-conditions by identifying instances of inappropriateness (Warner, 2012).

  5. The language most likely to continue long without alteration, would be that of a nation raised a little, and but a little, above barbarity, secluded from strangers, and totally employed in procuring the conveniencies of life; either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few: men thus busied and unlearned, having ...

  6. Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most influential analytic philosophers of language during the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century. An attraction of Davidson’s philosophy of language is the set of conceptual connections he draws between traditional questions about language and issues ...

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  8. In 1822 Wordsworth returned to his introduction, expanding it into a book most commonly known as A Guide through the District of the Lakes, which continues to be republished in a variety of editions. Wordsworth’s love of his native region is evident in the Guide , which remains useful for the reader of Wordsworth’s poetry as well as for the tourist of the Lake District.