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32 quotes by Kenneth L. Pike

Kenneth Lee Pike Born June 9, 1912 (1912-06-09) Woodstock, Connecticut Died December 31, 2000(2000-12-31) (aged 88) Dallas, Texas Nationality American Fields Linguistics Alma mater University of Michigan Doctoral advisor Charles C. Fries Known for Tagmemics Kenneth Lee Pike (June 9, 1912–December 31, 2000) was an American linguist and anthropologist. He was the originator of the theory of tagmemics, the coiner of the terms "emic"...
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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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

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God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

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

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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