Quotes Tagged With :semantics

[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.....

He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.

To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over....

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends....

To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of....

It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.

But if we decide contextually specific questions of synonymy on the basis of the total semantic range....

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations.....

An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure....

There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour....