Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.

Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

Language is a social art.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.