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explaining the universe with the alphabet
"A look at Lucretius's De rerum natura (The Nature of Things), both in general and at what he specifically had to say about language: from the specificity of something like his analogy of atoms with letters of the alphabet to the fear we encounter when dealing with a potentially meaningless universe (the foundation of modern linguistics rests, after all, on Saussure's arbitrariness of the sign)"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2025