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Logic 92

languages violently to adapt them to the Procrustean [be?] of latin grammar.
Even if one fully knows how false a representation this gives it is hard in writing a grammar to resist the temptation to make use of brief familiar phrases which are after all as nearly right as any idea one can convey without much trouble and labor both to the reader and to oneself.
For that reason it will not suffice to get ones idea of an uninflected language from any mere grammar.
It is necessary to have some real living acquaintance with it in order to appreciate its modes of thought especially since these will be most difficult for us to grasp.

It seems to me then that appeals to language can serve no other purpose than as most inadequate and deceptive evidence of psychological necessities or tenfencies and these psychological necessities and tendencies after they are ascertained are utterly useless for the investigation

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