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There are various parallels between the Daoist and Burkeian texts when we consider their views of human symbol-use, language. The Dao can not be adequately expressed in words. The Dao is the all-embracing first principle of the universe, and, at the same time, not only a unifying source, relating all phenomena, but the foundation of their natural diversity. Dramatism is a technique of analysis of language and thought as basically modes of action rather than as a means of conveying information. According to Burke's Dramatism, what we need or can explain is not terms that avoid ambiguity, but terms that clearly reveal the strategic spots at which ambiguities necessarily arise. We can find that both the Daoists and Burke value the state of uncertainty which arises when we accept the inherent ambiguity of words. The Daoists do not offer generalized principles for conduct, but methods for cultivating the state of mind to which we can respond free from the authority of a particular limited perspective. Burke does not provide, as the Daoists do, a guide to conduct which openly espouses non-purposive action and spontaneity. But Burke appears to adopt a similarly casuistic approach in his view of the act of textual criticism.