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Kenneth Lee Pike

Kenneth Lee Pike Books

Anthropologist

Kenneth Lee Pike was an American anthropologist known for his contributions to structuralist anthropology. His research focused on language, symbols, and cognitive processes, and his theories had a profound impact on subsequent cultural studies and semiotics.

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“The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.”

Author:Kenneth Lee Pike

“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.”

Has Beens Christianity Acceptance Conflict Commitment Lays Power Of God Groundwork

Author:Kenneth Lee Pike

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

Should Whole Language Theory Activity Treats Organized Unified Methodology Body Language Nonverbal

Book:Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior

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“Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.”

Knows Humans Able Social Can Do Society Identity Behavior Normal Anger Injustice Spite Human Society Social Behavior

Book:Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics

Source: Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics

“Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.”

Universe Language Sound Perspective Behavior Discourse Observers Integrating Clauses

Book:Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics

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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.”

Believe Normal Theology Statements Discourse

Book:Selected writings: To commemorate the 60th birthday of Kenneth Lee Pike

Source: Selected writings: To commemorate the 60th birthday of Kenneth Lee Pike

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

Language Situation Particular Degrees Tools Relevant Adequate Precision

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

Principles Abstract Conformity Conform

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“The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.”

Believe Pay Guilt Untruth

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“All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven.”

Looks Heaven Broken Transformation Salvation Dirty Worn Showcase

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“Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.”

Men Way Made Christian Fall Christ Christianity Program Concrete Good Christian

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“Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.”

Results Courage Source Deeper

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“Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.”

Language Structure Revelations

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“The detached observer's view is one window on the world.”

World Views Window Observers Detached

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“The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.”

Different Eye Views Scene Window Locals Native Participants Through The Eyes

Book:Language and Life

Source: Language and Life

“There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.”

Responsibility Following

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“Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.”

Today Form Theory Accepted Yesterday Practicality

Book:Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics

Source: Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics

“Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when we trust in God can we make a contribution which will not collapse.”

Enough Force Stress Contribution Trust In God Collapse Bankruptcy

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“Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.”

Humans Possibility Communication Function Possibility Of Change

Book:Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior

Source: Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior

“I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.”

Philosophy Use Wanted Theory Office

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“The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.”

Men Mind Universe Study Complexes Sample

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“The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.”

Whole Universe Study Degrees Marvelous Linguistics Marvelous Things

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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.”

Facts Discipline Prepared Grants Units Acknowledgement Coherence Overlapping

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“God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.”

Analysis Sample

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“Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.”

Important Form Individual Identity Personality Characteristics Continuity

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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.”

Ifs Way Philosophy Would Be Pure Mechanism Scholar

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“If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.”

Ifs Language Behavior

Book:Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics

Source: Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics

“If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.”

Ifs Knows Feels Clear Trouble Conscience Scholar Topics Publish Clear Conscience

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“It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.”

People Values Universal Granted Respectability

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“Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.”

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“Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.”

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About the Author

Born: June 9, 1912
Died: December 31, 2000
Known for: Anthropologist
Quotes: 31

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