Word: verbale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Verbal Confusions...
...perhaps unfair to single out Dr. Farnsworth from the countless well-intentioned life-adjustors who daily offer the public new verbal panaceas and programs with no possible reference to human activity. Yet the failure of these men to realize the importance of language and form in the presentation of their work is perhaps the most important single blindness now retarding our effort to develop a new vision of human nature which will conform to our scientific predelictions and replace the mystical resignation of medieval religion...
This failure to consider aesthetic criteria is a romantic arrogance. Social scientists seem to believe that "truth" exists independently of their efforts to embody this truth in verbal or symbolic formulations. They further believe that they have direct access to this truth, and they therefore assume that if they make a statement which is not false, they are necessarily increasing human knowledge, no matter how inane, inarticulate, or inept their formulation...
...book is anything, it is a plea for intelligence. But as a plea for intelligence it fails to be an example of the utility of such intelligence. It gives neither evidence nor insight nor articulation to the psychiatric outlook, but instead requires the reader to explode a series of verbal bubbles...
Contrasting views of metaphor as "a verbal matter" and as "an act of mind" were presented yesterday by Marshall Cohen, Junior Fellow in Philosophy, in the first of six Lowell Institute lectures on "The Meaning of Metaphor." Cohen went on to discuss the semantical properties of metaphor...