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Fundamental Principles Of Language (Part I) All language depends on two general principles. First. The fixed and unvarying laws of nature which regulate matter and mind. Second. The agreement of those who use it. Fundamental Principles Of Language Part II You will readily perceive the correctness of our first proposition, that all language depends on the fixed and unerring laws of nature. Things exist. A knowledge of them produces ideas in the mind, and sounds or signs are adopted as vehicles to convey these ideas from one to another. Fundamental Principles Of Language Part III The occasion of all their difficulty originated in an attempt to nvestigate the faculties of the mind without any means of getting at it. They did not content themselves with an adoption of the principles which lay at the foundation of all true philosophy, viz., that the facts to be accounted for, do exist; that truth is eternal, and we are to become acquainted with it by the means employed for its development.