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

But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense 'red' and 'blue' any more than 'resemblance' (or 'qualities' any more than 'relations'): we sense something of …

Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it …

In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed…

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

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…

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.