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“Creation implies authority in the sense of originator.”
Source: The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology
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“Language does our thinking for us.”
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Source: Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose
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“The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.”
Source: A Rhetoric of Motives
“Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.”
Source: Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method
Source: Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method
“Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.”
Source: A Rhetoric of Motives
Source: The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology
Source: A grammar of motives, and A rhetoric of motives
Source: The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology
“We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.”
Source: Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose