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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.
Kenneth L. Pike
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Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
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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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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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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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Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
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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.
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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.
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It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
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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.
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Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
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The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
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I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
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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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