Term
Declarative Culture
used in 29 texts across the archive
“The striving toward universal agreement is propelled by the development of declarative culture as the negation of imperative and ostensive cultures.”
In use
“The proper use of declarative culture is to articulate all this, and engage others in its articulation.”
“We are completely within ‘declarative culture” here, and declarative culture is predicated on the banishment of imperatives and ostensives that don’t “follow” from declaratives.”
“Declarative culture promises us we will only have to obey one imperative: the imperative of reality.”
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