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The shape and the form of every human mind is given in how that mind is given to comprehend the world and to express itself in it. To be human means being a member of some human society. To be a member of some human society means being able to comprehend the world as others express it, and to express it as others will comprehend it. To be eligible to belong to any human society means being able to communicate" right." So it is in communication that we create and maintain one another as human. And it is in communication that we create and maintain everything else that is human.

We literally" say" our worlds into existence, for the only existence they will ever have for us inheres in how we speak of them—in how we create and recreate the mental artifacts with which we must relate to them, to each other, and to ourselves. A way of talking about the world is a way of being. The human habitat consists of …