"A pluralistic mode of critical inquiry suggests a different norm of correctness: that criticism must be verified by those participating in the practice and that this demand for practical verification is part of the process of inquiry itself In the absence of any such general theories, the most fruit"
"The fundamental form of coordination through language......a practical stance......reading understanding...... COMMUNICATIVE ACTION, which he distinguishes from strategic forms of social action......speakers coordinate their action and pursuit of individual (or joint) goals on the basis of a shared "
"we understand a speech act when we know the kinds of reasons that a speaker could provide in order to convince a hearer that he is entitled in the given circumstances to claim validity for his utterance--in short, when we know what makes it acceptable"
"speech acts inherently involve claims that are in need of reasons--claims that are open to both criticism and justification"
"fact-stating modes of discourse......claims to moral rightness, ethical goodness or autheticity, personal sincerity, and aesthetic value......a richer social idea--that a claim (statement) merits the addressee's acceptance because it is justified or true in some sense, which can vary according to th"
"moves the analysis beyond a narrow focus on the truth-conditional semantics of representation to the social intellibility of interaction"
"allowing for weaker forms of communicative action (in which not all three types of validity claims are at stake) or strategic action (in which actors understand that everyone is oriented toward individual success)"
"shared cultural systems of meaning, institutional orders that stablize patterns of action, and personality structures acquired in family, church, neighborhood, and school"