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The Ultimate Law Of Language Is, Dare We Say, That Nothing Can Ever Reside In A Single Term. This Is A Direct Consequence Of The Fact That Linguistic Signs Are Unrelated To What They Designate And That, Therefore, 'a' Cannot Designate Anything Without The The Aid Of 'b' And Vice Versa, Or, In Other Words, That Both Have Value Only By The Difference Between Them.

The First Of These Phases Is That Of Grammar, Invented By The Greeks And Carried On Unchanged By The French. It Never Had Any Philosophical View Of A Language As Such.

Psychologically Our Thought-apart From Its Expression In Words-is Only A Shapeless And Indistinct Mass.

In The Lives Of Individuals And Societies, Language Is A Factor Of Greater Importance Than Any Other. For The Study Of Language To Remain Solely The Business Of A Handful Of Specialists Would Be A Quite Unacceptable State Of Affairs.

Outside Speech, The Association That Is Made In The Memory Between Words Having Something In Common Creates Different Groups, Series, Families, Within Which Very Diverse Relations Obtain But Belonging To A Single Category: These Are Associative Relations.