Full Idea
Discourse generally departmentalizes itself to some degree.
Gist of Idea
Discourse generally departmentalizes itself to some degree
Source
Willard Quine (Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis [1950], 2)
Book Reference
Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.71
A Reaction
I pick this out because I think it is important. There is a continually shifting domain in any conversation ('what we are talking about'), and speech cannot be understand if the shifting domain or department has not been grasped.