Quotes About Semantics

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Psychology, the talking cure, linguistics, and semantics - they're all like dogs poking around and sniffing their own vomit. There might be some gems in there, you never know. For certain you will at the very least know what you had for lunch. And you can ascertain what not to eat again.

The end of his great project was in sight, and then he encountered the verb take, with its remarkable number of senses. He had had to deal with complicated verbs before: come had ended up with 56 senses, go had 68 and put had 80. But take was going to require an unprecedented 124.

this question depends upon the definition of the word, Nature, than which there is none more ambiguous and equivocal.

Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

Why are they called buildings when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites?

A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".

With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged.

Being that can be understood is language.

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

That's the beauty and the curse of the 'engrafted word'... it all comes down to interpretation.

Hebrew is a language which has no tenses at all , it has only aspects.

What remains mysterious, or even enigmatic are those two words "nothing more," " pas davantage " in French.