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mental entity. This equivocation has caused some confusion in contemporary
cognitive psychology.
3 "Why does opium put people to sleep?"--"Because it has a dormitive virtue."
That may sound profound until one realizes that the phrase is just transliterated
Latin for "power of producing sleep." The physician (Argan in Le Malade
Imaginaire) might as well have spoken in Pig Latin: "It puts people to sleep
because itay utspay eoplepay otay eepslay." That is hardly an explanation.
Chapter 6
1 Here are three infrequently noticed ways in which the notion of a "sentence"
is quite a considerable abstraction away from real-world linguistic activity.
First (you may be surprised to learn), human utterances do not come
broken up into separate words. An acoustical analysis of oral speech
production shows a continuous though of course variegated stream of sound.
(When . . . we . . . talk . . . we . . . do . . . not . . . pause .
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