Excerpt from The Philosophy of Sentential Language, or Language an Exact Science: Elucidated by Rules Based on the Principles of Mental Philosophy; Designed to Present the Science and Art of Communicating Knowledge Clearly and Correctly in Writing and Speaking But can one learn any thing, more especially Mental Philosophy, without first understanding language? Ans. A child feels [knows by experience] the sensations of hunger, of pain, as well before it knows the name Of the feeling as after. Indeed, Without this antecedent idea, the name itself would have no meaning to the child. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.