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Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part One)

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The Origin of Syntactical Forms of Speech

Wegner and this process of modification. She points to his principal emendation, which begets syntactical forms of speech. And yet i hadn't thought of that, which she attributes to weginer buters. What is the example she gives of flaring? It can be used metaphorically to describe whatever its meaning can symbolize. Whether it taken in a literal or metaphorical sense has to be determined by the context.

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