 At the 2013 Philosophy of Communication Division National Communication Association Conference in Washington, D.C., two professors, Bruce Hyde and Drew Kopp, presented their paper "Connecting Philosophy and Communication; A Heideggerian Analysis of the Ontological Rhetoric of Werner Erhard", in which they write, "We are not suggesting here that Heidegger's philosophical writings were the source of Erhard's ideas.We see both men as being at work in the same field, sharing a view toward language and its relationship to Being.