J. L. Austin Quotes on Semantics
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Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things? --Austin, Papers 38.
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It may justly be urged that, properly speaking, what alone has meaning is a sentence. --Austin, Papers 56.
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Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed. --Austin, Papers 180.