For example, speech act routines always have their constituent argument logic. We may call sentences of this sort titles to indicate their characteristic expandibility into fuller statements and paragraphs. This is not the case with sentences that function as symbols , as with low-discourse. But sentences that function as titles always have an implied or indirect meaning that can be recovered by inferencing. Norms are rankings of information, as in evaluations, ratings, or selections.
Every title is a bundle of ranked information.
Titles are thus ranked symbols . A symbol may be elevated to a title by giving it a rank on some norm. In the cognitive domain you can infer that I know some of the vicissitudes of bringing up children. In the affective domain you can presuppose that I must have evolved a philosophy of life to cope with these vicissitudes or difficulties, and perhaps you might expect me to say something about that. The sentence communicates information but it does not qualify it.