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

Kenneth L. Pike · Communication

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Kenneth L. Pike

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.

Change

Kenneth L. Pike

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.

Science

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.

Society

Kenneth L. Pike

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Failure