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.

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

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.

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.

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

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