Kenneth Pike Quotations

If one refuses to view self as needing integration with God and neighbor, one shrivels like a shrub in the desert.

To equate truth with magnification is to abandon scientific discourse.

Man must, sometimes, act as if he believed it - or die.

Experimental syntax, of a mathematical type, geared to referential axioms, may help further along these lines - or others not imagined as yet.

PURE FORMALISM as such, without attention to referential social axioms, is powerless to capture the relevance of many discourse grammatical functions.

A theory may be viewed rather broadly as a statement purporting to describe, or to explain, or to help one to understand a phenomenon. More narrowly, a theory may present a claim of truth, or assert the presence of relationships between phenomena, or predict the occurrence of phenomena.

In my view, a child is born with the INNATE POTENTIAL to learn to handle deliberate focus shifts such as are seen in the kaleidoscopic poetry shifts, but both the young and old need to learn such matters from available oral or written culture or from teachers - or must have initiative and imagination to develop some such devices on their own.