Furthermore, although there may be no bedrock language of uncontaminated observation to which they can retreat, they have available to them forms of description that presuppose only shared commonsense ideas about objects in the vicinity.
In the "popular" language we use every day, we talk of our choices, intentions, and resolutions, but in the "philosophical" language of the Observations, Hartley proposed we think in terms of "philosophical necessity" — in which every "voluntary" action is "excited by an associated circumstance" (OM 1, 70).
Martinez-Schallmoser et al. (2003) have developed a revised measure of acculturation for Latinas that includes four dimensions of the process of acculturation: language, observation of ethnic traditions, preservation of cultural heritage, and semantic descriptions of Mexican men and women.
As a result, his early considerations of social theory and values yielded a model of language of theory and observation that were meant to do justice to the social and voluntaristic dimensions of unity, rationality, and objectivity in the language and methodology of the sciences.
Theories about ritual are either deduced from the primary literature of a religious tradition or are translated into written language as a result of observation.
What Naipaul saw was merely the bewilderment and destitution of the locals, for whom island life was a kind of imprisonment: 'Sugar-cane and sugar-cane, ending in the sea, and the diseased coconut trees, blighted by the rhinoceros beetle.' What impresses most in this essay, apart from its courage, is the precision of language and the acuity of observation.
As in the doctrines of the objective (intersubjective), universal, unifying value of observation language, Neurath claimed that simple visual representations were theoretically- and value-neutral, eliminating judgment, at least compared to verbal expressions (and theoretical statements) (ibid., 234).
S. T. Karnick writes in the National Review that Chan is "a brilliant detective with understandably limited facility in the English language [whose] powers of observation, logic, and personal rectitude and humility made him an exemplary, entirely honorable character".
Great precision of language, limpid observation and a rare ability to make the narrative of the poems resonate evocatively.
"There isn't a single one of her books you'd describe as cheerful, but they are nonetheless exuberant, they are full of life, a life that comes from the use of language and the observation of detail".
