Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

Pioneering is the work of individuals.

Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.