The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.

Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

To be is to be the value of a variable.