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One of the most powerful weapons which recent writers have managed to direct against the view that “thought” is a process that can be validly distinguished from its expression or articulation in language is the well-known infinite regress argument. The argument itself has had a very long and fruitful career and has proven to be highly adaptable. I believe, however, that its application in this context is illegitimate and contains a serious error.
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© 1969 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Engel, S.M. (1969). Thought and Language. In: Language and Illumination. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3435-2_6
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