Saussure
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Saussurean adjective
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Was Ferdinand de Saussure a structuralist or a post-structuralist?
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Saussure was obsessed with mountains as a focus of his research; he believed they held the key to understanding the Earth.
From The Guardian • May 16, 2019
As early as 1787, Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, conducting earth sciences research, documented mountain sickness there.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2012
Despite this exact statement, de Saussure failed to connect large boulders found in the foreland of the mountains to the glaciers of the Alps.
From Scientific American • Jan. 4, 2011
Nowadays, however, pedestrians, often untrained, may be seen daily ascending at a very much faster pace than De Saussure seems to have gone, and yet the effects are scarcely felt.
From Above the Snow Line by Dent, Clinton Thomas
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