Positivism Stands Or Falls With The Principle

I Cannot Imagine A Context That Would Some Day, In Some Manner, Make The Monstrous Crime Of September 11 An Understandable Or Comprehensible Political Act

The Task Of Universal Pragmatics Is To Identify And Reconstruct Universal Conditions Of Possible Mutual Understanding.

What Was New Was The Symbolic Force Of The Targets Struck. The Attackers Did Not Just Physically Cause The Highest Buildings In Manhattan To Collapse; They Also Destroyed An Icon In The Household Imagery Of The American Nation.

The Bourgeois Public Sphere May Be Conceived Above All As The Sphere Of Private People Come Together As A Public; They Soon Claimed The Public Sphere Regulated From Above Against The Public Authorities Themselves, To Engage Them In A Debate Over The General Rules Governing Relations In The Basically Privatized But Publicly Relevant Sphere Of Commodity Exchange And Social Labor.

The Usage Of The Words "public" And "public Sphere" Betrays A Multiplicity Of Concurrent Meanings. Their Origins Go Back To Various Historical Phases And, When Applied Synchronically To The Conditions Of A Bourgeois Society That Is Industrially Advanced And Constituted As A Social-welfare State, They Fuse Into A Clouded Amalgam. Yet The Very Conditions That Make The Inherited Language Seem Inappropriate Appear To Require These Words, However Confused Their Employment.