"Not only the tools of manual labour, but also the tools of human thought — words — are subject to the laws of historical development. The history of the meanings of words is outside the area of interest of formal logic, and could not be fruitfully studied by the methods of that discipline."
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Witold Doroszewski
(May 1, 1899 - Jan. 26, 1976) was a Polish lexicographer and linguist, and Professor at the University of Warsaw, member of the Warsaw Scientific Society, and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is known for his contributions in the field of linguistics and semantics.
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