[lit-ideas] The Diversions of Purley

  • From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:41:37 EDT

Geary thinks that etymologies are abitrary. J. Horne Tooke thought  
otherwise.

The etymon is the TRUE. There is only ONE etymon for each  word; we know it 
or not. That true encompasses, as J. Wager notes, the ESSENCE  of the 
denotatum of the word.

Give me a word and I'll explain that the  etymology is only possible for 
that word and that it cannot have or could not  have had another etymology.

Cheers,

JL Speranza
   Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
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