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This (functional - E.w.) Language Controls By Reducing The Linguistic Forms And Symbols Of Reflection, Abstraction, Development, Contradiction; By Substituting Images For Concepts. It Denies Or Absorbs The Transcendent Vocabulary; It Does Not Search For But Establishes And Imposes Truth And Falsehood.

-Herbert Marcuse

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This (functional - E.w.) Language Controls By

Herbert Marcuse

This (functional - E.w.) Language Controls By Reducing The Linguistic Forms And Symbols Of Reflection, Abstraction, Development, Contradiction; By Substituting Images For Concepts. It Denies Or Absorbs The Transcendent Vocabulary; It Does Not Search For But Establishes And Imposes Truth And Falsehood.

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