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work_vn5jmst7gnf4rlmyccjvip4b3a	Leslie A. White	The Symbol: The Origin and Basis of Human Behavior	1940	7	.pdf	application/pdf	5203	328	68	All human behavior originates in the use of symbols. Man uses symbols; no other creature A symbol is a thing, the value or meaning of which is bestowed upon it by those who use it. symbols are derived from and determined by the organisms who use them; meaning is bestowed by human organisms upon physical forms which thereupon become symbols.(5) The word then functions as a sign, rather than as a symbol.(7) Its meaning Words are both signs and symbols to man; The difference between the behavior of man and other animals then, is that the lower cultural anthropologist to take the ability to use symbols, possessed by man alone, as given. culture, are dependent upon a faculty possessed by man alone, the ability to use symbols, the difference between the behavior of man and of all other creatures is not merely great, but basic about symbolic, i.e., human, behavior.	./cache/work_vn5jmst7gnf4rlmyccjvip4b3a.pdf	./txt/work_vn5jmst7gnf4rlmyccjvip4b3a.txt