Sentences

Sentences

The Four Books of Sentences (Libri Quattuor Sententiarum) is a book of theology written by Peter Lombard in the twelfth century. It is a systematic compilation of theology, written around 1150; it derives its name from the sententiae or authoritative statements on biblical passages that it gathered together.

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    Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
    Jean Rostand (1894–1977)

    Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
    Richard Rorty (b. 1931)

    Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.
    Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)