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There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
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.
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
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.
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
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.
We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
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.
Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.
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.
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
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.
