On language structure.The great languages of the world were not planned affairs. Yet lurking See lurk. (messaging, jargon) lurking - The activity of one of the "silent majority" in a electronic forum such as Usenet; posting occasionally or not at all but reading the group's postings regularly. in the interstices of syntax, the philosophy of a whole culture is to be found. Neither the structure of languages nor their growth is planned, and neither can be controlled. The failure of popular acceptance of the synthetic languages an inflectional language, or one characterized by grammatical endings; - opposed to - R. Morris. See also: Synthetic is typical. Language is an outgrowth of the necessity for communication tempered by the exigencies of the implicit dominant ontology ontology: see metaphysics. ontology Theory of being as such. It was originally called “first philosophy” by Aristotle. In the 18th century Christian Wolff contrasted ontology, or general metaphysics, with special metaphysical theories . It is a tool, perhaps the most useful one which has ever been devised, but it also contains the metaphysical met·a·phys·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to metaphysics. 2. Based on speculative or abstract reasoning. 3. Highly abstract or theoretical; abstruse. 4. a. Immaterial; incorporeal. beliefs of those who have been, and are, responsible for it. JAMES FEIBLEMAN, "THE THEORY OF HUMAN CULTURE" |
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