Indirectness implies awareness of a shared reference-the gesture, the sound, the word-that is simultaneously shared experience.
Socrates, as well as Plato, feared indirectness and wrote conclusively about memory and wisdom.
The transition from directness and immediateness to indirectness and mediation, along with the notions of space and time appropriated in the process, is in many ways reflected in the process of language constitution.
Within this pragmatic framework, a level of indirectness is constituted: confirmation, or what cybernetics identifies as feedback, in all biological processes.
State, indirectness of election is a question not of politics, but of the technical requirements of self-government, and within certain limits may present the same advantages as in the realm of trade union organization.
Kautsky has cited as an argument against the Soviet Constitution the indirectness of elections, which contradicts the fixed laws of bourgeois democracy.
Complexity of structure and indirectness of origin are thus really two different characteristics of states of mind, which frequently go together, but frequently part company.
These beliefs with their correlative ceremonies have a further resemblance to play in the indirectness of their utility.
The indirectness of a rite makes it more mysterious and magical, and that is a recommendation.
