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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

An Idée reçue is a received, or accepted, idea. This term was used by Gustave Flaubert in his work Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues to refer to a catchphrases and platitudes, most of which are as paradoxical as they are insipid.




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