The significance of silence

Nicholas Rescher

European Review, 1998, vol. 6, issue 1, 91-95

Abstract: Well-timed silence has more eloquence than speech. Martin Farquhar TupperSilence can express nothing or be meaningful. It is meaningful only in a communicative setting and, in an environment of words, silence is often the instrument of choice to communicate without explicit expression. After the last word, ‘the rest is silence’.

Date: 1998
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