“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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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.
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
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.
