To Use Words To Sense Reality Is

Let Us Repeat The Two Crucial Negative Premises As Established Firmly By All Human Experience: (1) Words Are Not The Things We Are Speaking About; And (2) There Is No Such Thing As An Object In Absolute Isolation.

I Want To Make Clear Only That Words Are Not The Things Spoken About, And That There Is No Such Thing As An Object In Absolute Isolation.

It Is Amusing To Discover, In The Twentieth Century, That The Quarrels Between Two Lovers, Two Mathematicians, Two Nations, Two Economic Systems, Usually Assumed Insoluble In A Finite Period Should Exhibit One Mechanism, The Semantic Mechanism Of Identification - The Discovery Of Which Makes Universal Agreement Possible, In Mathematics And In Life.

The Map Is Not The Territory... The Only Usefulness Of A Map Depends On Similarity Of Structure Between The Empirical World And The Map.

It Is Now No Mystery That Some Quite Influential 'philosophers' Were 'mentally' Ill.