If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

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  There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

• Kenneth L. Pike:

  Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coher

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

• Kenneth L. Pike:

  The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different w

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  Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man b

• Kenneth L. Pike:

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

• Kenneth L. Pike:

  This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing

• Kenneth L. Pike:

  Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

• Kenneth L. Pike:

  Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

• Kenneth L. Pike:

  Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal