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Language Transaction Differences Between Contract and the New and Everlasting Covenant

Posted on April 2, 1993 by Admin

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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The Language of Heart, Might, Mind, and Strength

Posted on August 19, 1991 by Admin

Chauncey C. Riddle Education Week, 1991 The title of these series of discussions is Language and Philosophy of Language, and their connection with religion. Yesterday we talked about communication, pointing out that everything we do is a communication. And our … Continue reading →

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Language, Conversation, Sanity and Reality

Posted on March 7, 1991 by Admin

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

Posted on March 14, 1989 by Admin

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

Posted on March 18, 1988 by Admin

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

Posted on March 27, 1987 by Admin

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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A Taxonomy of Human Communication

Posted on February 24, 1984 by Admin

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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