Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
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Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
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With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.
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We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?
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