To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

The reason that I call my doctrine logical atomism is because the atoms that I wish to arrive at as the sort of last residue in analysis are logical atoms and …

In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combinati…

My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the poi…

Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things? --Austin, Papers 38.

It may justly be urged that, properly speaking, what alone has meaning is a sentence. --Austin, Papers 56.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which th…