"Cooperation and trust are essential ingredients of social life, made public through language, spoken and written. From the signals and gestures of our predecessors to the grafting of sound and markings to modern grammar, what we say and write represents what we think and what we think and feel represents what we perceive and have perceived of the world. Were truth a random occurrence, or of relatively little significance, our language would be vastly different, itself undependable. Such is not the case however: our words and grammar reflect what we see, hear, feel, imagine, and do." -- From "The Limits of Truth" (XLIBRIS)