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How dead languages reveal the poverty of modern thinking

I'm learning ancient Greek to read philosophy and the grammar is showing me that my modern thoughts are trapped in contemporary linguistic limitations.

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What we've seen

Historical linguistic structures contain cognitive possibilities that contemporary language has eliminated, revealing intellectual impoverishment.

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