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Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Dutch Cape Colony at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century: De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (1810) by Ludwig Alberti
No full textDry Truth and Real Knowledge : Epistemologies of Metaphors and Metaphors of Epistemology
No full textLocke is eloquent in defence of plain speech. In a famous, or notorious, passage at close of chapter X of Book III of the Essay: âOf the Abuse of Words,â though he admits that âsince wit and fancy find easier entertainment than dry truth and real knowledge, figurative speeches and allusions in language will hardly be admitted as an imperfection of it,â Locke insists that nevertheless,
if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness; all the artificial and figurative applications of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else than to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgement; and so indeed are perfect cheats
âDry Truth and Real Knowledgeâ: Epistemologies of Metaphor and Metaphors of Epistemology
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