I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so well trodden by the angels.

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

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.

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.

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.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.