Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017) American economist
Source: 1970s-1980s, The Limits Of Organization (1974), Chapter 2, Organization And Information, p. 34
“If we share to a large extent in the mutuality of spirit which makes meaning possible, we are receptive to true meanings; if we do not, we may accept wrong or perverted ones.”
“Relativism and the Use of Language,” pp. 123-124.
Language is Sermonic (1970)
Context: If we share to a large extent in the mutuality of spirit which makes meaning possible, we are receptive to true meanings; if we do not, we may accept wrong or perverted ones. And since there is no way of getting outside the human imagination to decide otherwise what a word should mean, we are compelled to realize that the most imaginative users of language are those who are going to have the greatest influence upon vocabulary in the long run.
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