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As Medium For Reaching Understanding, Speech Acts Serve: A) To Establish And Renew Interpersonal Relations, Whereby The Speaker Takes Up A Relation To Something In The World Of Legitimate Social Orders; B) To Represent States And Events, Whereby The Speaker Takes Up A Relation To Something In The World Of Existing States Of Affairs; C) To Manifest Experiences That Is, To Represent Oneself- Whereby The Speaker Takes Up A Relation To Something In The Subjective World To Which He Has Privileged Access.

I Would In Fact Tend To Have More Confidence In The Outcome Of A Democratic Decision If There Was A Minority That Voted Against It, Than If It Was Unanimous... Social Psychology Has Amply Shown The Strength Of This Bandwagon Effect.

Disappointment Over Nationalistic Authoritarian Regimes May Have Contributed To The Fact That Today Religion Offers A New And Subjectively More Convincing Language For Old Political Orientations.

Science Can Only Be Comprehended Epistemologically, Which Means As One Category Of Possible Knowledge, As Long As Knowledge Is Not Equated Either Effusively With The Absolute Knowledge Of A Great Philosophy Or Blindly With Scientistic Self-understanding Of The Actual Business Of Research.

Subjects Who Reciprocally Recognize Each Other As Such, Must Consider Each Other As Identical, Insofar As They Both Take Up The Position Of Subject; They Must At All Times Subsume Themselves And The Other Under The Same Category. At The Same Time, The Relation Of Reciprocity Of Recognition Demands The Non-identity Of One And The Other, Both Must Also Maintain Their Absolute Difference, For To Be A Subject Implies The Claim Of Individuation.