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| which are representations of people, events, and all that goes on around us and in us. three characteristics of symbols = arbitrariness, ambiguity, and abstraction |
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| includes symbols that are not words, such as facial expressions, posture, and tone of voice. EYES |
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| mean that verbal symbols are not intrinsically connected to what they represent. |
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| means it does not have clear-cut, precise meaning. "good friend" |
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| means that words are not the concrete or tangible phenomena to which they refer. they stand for those phenomenas-- ideas, people, events, objects, feelings, and so on but they are not the things they represent. |
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| are objective, concrete phenomena and activities. pg. 75 |
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| are meanings of brute facts based on human interpretation. pg. 75 |
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