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In a preceding chapter, communication by language has been described not only as the necessary condition of the origin of science, but also as the means by which the motive of comparison is produced in scientific presentation and investigation. I may be permitted, therefore, without making the slightest pretension to authority on questions in which I have not made special studies of my own to state my views concerning the origin and development of language and its significance for scientific thought.
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Mach, E. (1986). Language. In: McGuinness, B. (eds) Principles of the Theory of Heat. Vienna Circle Collection, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4622-4_31
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