Outline of Linguistics - History of Linguistics

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“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

“Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won’t do. It’s an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.”
—Peter B. Medawar (1915–1987)