One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
From Willard Van Orman Quine
To be is to be the value of a variable.
Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
Language is a social art.
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.
We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
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