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Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

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Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

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Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

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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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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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So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.

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If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: June 9th, 1912

Died: December 31st, 2000

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