William Hardy McNeill Quote

Communication always involves slippage, and intellectual discourse is particularly liable to being twisted since a recipient can only accommodate novelty by fitting it into a preexisting structure of ideas.


The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian's Memoir (2005)


Communication always involves slippage, and intellectual discourse is particularly liable to being twisted since a recipient can only accommodate...

Communication always involves slippage, and intellectual discourse is particularly liable to being twisted since a recipient can only accommodate...

Communication always involves slippage, and intellectual discourse is particularly liable to being twisted since a recipient can only accommodate...

Communication always involves slippage, and intellectual discourse is particularly liable to being twisted since a recipient can only accommodate...