Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

Fact is richer than diction.

It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not real.

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

I begin, then, with some remarks about 'the meaning of a word.' I think many persons now see all or part of what I shall say: but not all do, and there is a tendency to forget, or to get it slightly wrong. In so far as I am merely flogging the converted, I apologize to them.