THE FORMATION FACTORS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE APHORISMS. APHORISTIC TEXTS

Abstract

Abstaract: As aphorisms have been for millennia anthologized and de-
anthologized, revived and mutilated, quoted and misquoted, they constitute their own
cultural network. As such, a philological understanding of aphorisms is as necessary
as a philosophical one: that is to say, one must examine not only their internal meaning
but also the circumstances of their material production, transmission, and reception in
history.