The Language Arts and Reality
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The three language arts can be defined as they relate to reality and to each other. Metaphysics or ontology, the science of being, is concerned with reality, with the thing- as-it-exists. Logic, grammar, and rhetoric have the following relation to reality.
Logic is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-known.
Grammar is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-symbolized.
Rhetoric is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-communicated.