Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
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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?Kenneth L. Pike
That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
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This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.
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Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
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Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
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Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
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