Could this be expressed as“As the wind rose,the night fell?”If not,why?Does this indicate a degree of non-arbitrariness about word order?(Bolinger,1981:15) Yes.It is a case in point to illustrate non-arbitrariness about word order.When the two parts interchange,the focus and the ...
The root word is ‘infinite’. To change this word from an adjective to a noun, we need to drop the ‘e’ and add ‘y’ Etymology The meaning of the word can be derived from the origins and meanings of its parts: in–‘without’ + finite‘end’ What are the benefits of the ...
but they are also many. Learning to read Chinese is simply orders of magnitudes more difficult than learning to read most alphabetical languages. Writing them from memory is even more of a pain. Thankfully, they 1) have at least some internal consistency and 2) aren’t infinite in...
Devise a tentative title for the paper and write it at the top. Then—in as orderly way as you can, but disorder is OK too—jot down what seem like sensible section headings, each in its own box. Sketch in anything that occurs to you that belongs in a section— paragraph headings, ...
How can this be? The main reason is that behind the Bible lies the infinite wisdom of God. In human history, great minds have produced great books. But God's mind is infinitely greater than any human mind, and what the Bible says is nothing less than his communication to us. ...
Suppose that we know that we ought to love our parents. As knowing-that in Ryle’s distinction, such a propositional knowledge is entirely compatible with our not actually loving parents. This is what Neo-Confucians call knowledge from seeing and hearing. Now suppose that, in addition, we ...
The midsummer sun« warm and expand the rocks ; the rains fall and penetrate them ; frosts turn the mois- ture into an infinite number of little wedges, which enter, and tear, and split, and crumble the surface into dust, and thus from year to year, from generation to generation, ...