Hence, we can find little direct description of the psychic states as such. (religion-online.org)
The symbolists «stressed the priority of suggestion and evocation over direct description and explicit analogy,» and were especially interested in «the musical properties of language.» (en.wikipedia.org)
The lesson taught by the linguistic philosophers is that the more we become self - conscious of the language we use the more we realize how linguistic distinctions have all along been imported into what we believed were direct descriptions of psychological processes. (religion-online.org)