Frequency rank: 47,038. – 47,982.
- utterance; speech
noun (common) (futsuumeishi); nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
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1. しこう思考とはつわ発話とがそうごいぞん相互依存することからわかるように、げんご言語は、きせい既成のじじつ事実をとらえる捉えるためのしゅだん手段というよりも、みち未知なるしんじつ真実をみつけだす見つけ出すためのしゅだん手段である。そのたよう多様せい性は、おんせい音声やきごう記号ではなくせかいかん世界観のたよう多様せい性なのだ。
The interdependence of thought and speech makes it clear that languages are not so much a means of expressing truth that has already been established, but a means of discovering truth that was previously unknown. Their diversity is a diversity not of sounds and signs but of ways of looking at the world.