ABSTRACT
There is, as we have already noted, abundant evidence in Richards' manner of writing and thinking of his hostility to norms, whether in the many different senses in which he used words, in thc varieties of logical categories he employed them in, in the ambiguity and overdetermination of meaning of his words, and in the lack of logical connection of his free-associational thinking. All this must have helped him to get into the swing of writing more easily than would have been possible if he had constantly been held up in order to make more precise the logical structure of his concepts, or than if hc had been meticulous about the precise compatibility of one section of his argument with another. In other words, this would help him to l110ve and to continue moving without constant effort, a quality that his vigorous style with its forward momentum certainly shows.
