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Language Transaction Differences Between Contract and the New and Everlasting Covenant

Chauncey C. Riddle April 1993 Contracts are always entered into on the basis of inexact human strength and might languages; redress always involves inexact interpretation of those same inexact transactions by a third party. New and Everlasting (N&E) Covenant transactions … Continue reading

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Language Transactions in Covenant and Contract

Chauncey Cazier Riddle Proceedings of the Deseret Language and Linguistics Society 1993 Symposium Brigham Young University 1-2 April 1993 I. Introduction Two fundamental ideas form the frame of this paper. First human beings have four kinds of language ability. They … Continue reading

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Language, Conversation, Sanity and Reality

The thesis of this paper is that human being consists of conversations, and that the ability of a person to converse with other beings to the advantage of the other beings is the measure of the person’s sanity. Continue reading

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Truth and Language

The challenge of this paper is to say enough about the subject of truth in a short space so that the picture of truth that emerges is not a false witness.

You may be aware that in the long history of the problem of truth there have been some principal answers as to what truth is. Continue reading

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Language and Human Being

Chauncey C. Riddle Brigham Young University 18 Mar. 1988 Riddle, Chauncey C. (1988) “Language and Human Being,” Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium: Vol. 14: Iss. 1, Article 17. Available at: http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/dlls/vol14/iss1/17 Introduction The human be-ing considered in this paper … Continue reading

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The Logic of Meaning

Logic has two major applications to language. One is the relating of truth-value, taking units of language as wholes and relating them to each other in the manner of the propositional calculus. This we shall call macro-logic. The second application is the study of the logic of meaning relationships in language, which we denominate as the micro-logic of language. The concern of this paper will be with the micro-logic of meaning. Continue reading

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The Basic Unit of Human Communication

The basic unit of human communication is an assertion in its historic context of actually being propounded by a real agent. Continue reading

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A Taxonomy of Human Communication

The purpose for this paper is to further clarify understanding of human communication. The main assertion is that all human communication may usefully be seen to belong to three and only three types: disclosure, directive, and description Continue reading

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