Quotes About Semantics

Aber keine semantische Ordnung kann allein auf solchen Binarismen beruhen, weil neben den festen immer auch bewegliche, ihren Platz im Feld wechselnde Elemente notwendig sind, um überhaupt Ordnung in der Zeit herzustellen.

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

In my own writing, I avoid 'female' and try to say 'woman' because I feel that the word 'female' has connotations of not just biology but also non-human mammals. The idea of 'female' to me is more appropriate for a female animal.

If philosophers were always in agreement about the meaning of words, almost all their disputes would evaporate.

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

This is not a pipe.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

You Keep Using the Word Help. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

Terminological inexactitude.

metaphors themselves are time-bound and ideologically motivated.

A common error about metaphor is to suppose that it can be in some sense 'unpacked'. When that unpacking takes place, what is left is rarely of any value; it seems a paltry and colourless thing when compared to the metaphor itself.

Does metaphor mean something more than, or different form, or in some sense beneath, what it appears to say; or is the meaning of a metaphor precisely what it does say.

It is commonplace to talk as if the world "has" meaning, to ask what "is" the meaning of a phrase, a gesture, a painting, a contract. Yet when thought about, it is clear that events are devoid of meaning until someone assigns it to them.

Semantics are just some antics used by the enemy to get us distracted and off course from the destiny and inheritance that God hand-picked and created specifically for us...

las palabras son casi siempre retóricas o excesivas o metafóricas y por lo tanto inexactas

Words are loaded pistols.

If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.

There is no egg in egg plant, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese? If teachers taught, why haven't preachers praught? We have noses that run and feet that smell. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

A popular Internet essay notes: "There is no egg in egg plant, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese? If teachers taught, why haven't preachers praught? We have noses that run and feet that smell. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero

Say wharever you choose about the object, and wharever you might say it is not. Or, in other words: wharever you might say the object is, well it is not.

No reflecting reader can deny that the passing off, on an unsuspecting listener, of noises for words, or symbols, must be classified as a fraud, or that we pass to the other fellow contagious semantic disturbances.