World and Language

<I>The World and Language</I> propounds the assumption that natural language is not linear. Linear languages are those in which an iteration of a sign is allowed. In contrast in natural language-as it is assumed-an iteration of a term must have a different meaning than the initial term. Cogency of the notion of non-linearity is deemed to grow as its explanatory power is being revealed though the idea of non-linearity itself does not seem to be contrary to common sense from the very beginning.