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

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

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

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

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

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