Timeline for Has it been argued that linguistics could only have arisen after exposure to foreign languages?
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 18:28 | comment | added | fdb | By the way, the ancient Babylonians wrote texts about grammar more than a thousand years before the Indians. | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 15:05 | comment | added | user6726 | I don't consider classical philosophical exercises to be pie. Indeed, Aristotle essentially invented science. | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 15:03 | comment | added | virmaior | I wonder about the use of the phrase " as a philosophical exercise." Sometimes, this is used to mean a pie-in-the-sky impractical thing, but my sense is that Aristotle's study of language is a stab at empirical science. | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 14:27 | history | answered | user6726 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |