78 Quotes About Semantics

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

Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivocal either, since they are expressing themselves in their effects. We could call them analogical. In language too all universal terms presuppose the non-univocal analogical use of the term *being*.

An individual cannot be considered entirely sane of he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.

An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.

Miracle does not always signify miracle.

Our agreement or disagreement is at times based on a misunderstanding.

A bigot is a bigot by any name, whether sociology likes it or not.

it is not necessary to convince anyone of anything..... and the words do not matter much. it is the knowledge and experience that is transcendent.

franklin," she said sternly, "you know your daddy told you not to play with matches!""no he didn’t," franklin countered. "he told me not to let him catch me playing with matches. and I’m not going to let him catch me.