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Quotation from On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations by Aristotle
“Spoken words are the symbols of mental experience and written words are the symbols of spoken words”
On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations, On Interpretation, Part 1, trans. E. M. Edghill (1926-1928, Oxford)
The opening of Aristotle's account of language, often called the semantic triangle of word, thought and thing.
Citation: "Spoken words are the symbols of mental experience and written words are the symbols of spoken words" — Aristotle, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations, On Interpretation, Part 1, trans. E. M. Edghill (1926-1928, Oxford). (id aristotle-organon-logic-q1)
