May 24, 2020

On Language

“Language makes thought, as much as it is made by thought. Thought inhabits language and language is its body.”

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

… From Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language (Northwestern University Press, 1974

… via Stowe Boyd


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