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.

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.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

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

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.

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.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.