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The History of Language, a Philosopher's Perspective
Owen barfield was one of the inklings, you know, this group of writers who used to meet in oxford. He had this interesting idea that if we study the history of language, we can see that language tharts a kind of evolution of consciousness. I readly like the analogy, if wer sending postcards to yourself, or like one part of you sending a post card to another part a,. definitely, sort of, it's a powerful image. It kind of icaptulatesit. What about a language? What about the rollof language? And this.
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