Verify Citation - 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
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Query: 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
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“In an archaic language there are no adequate means, either lexical or grammatical, to express such abstract ideas as ‘time,’ ‘space,’ ‘subject,’ ‘object,’ ‘cause,’ ‘beauty,’ ‘liberty,’ ‘invention,’ ‘multiplication,’ ‘division’ and many others, some of which appear to us elemental, as, e.g., the distinction between ‘darkness,’ ‘calamity,’ ‘illness,’ and ‘pain,’ etc., or between ‘good,’ ‘enjoyable,’ ‘kind,’ ‘happy,’ ‘useful,’ ‘lucky,’ etc. … In the absence of means to express general ideas, one resorts to generalization by tropes (metaphors and metonymies).”[1]
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- ↑ I.M. Diakonoff, “Some Reflections on Numerals in Sumerian Towards a History of Mathematical Speculation,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 103, No. 1 (1983), pp. 83–96.
