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Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
All forms of oppression carry their own semantics.
— Judd Trichter
You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.
— Alfred Tarski
It is not what you meant to say, but it is what your saying meant.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
Truth is a matter of semantics, whether we like it or not.
— Michael Robotham
It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation.
— Guy Steele
[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.
— Amos Tversky
Overrated is order.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A theory of reality must not only explain reality, but also knowledge about that reality because knowing reality is part of reality.
— Ashish Dalela
You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He who says that someone isn't himself is a victim of statistics.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
What you believe you experience.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics.
— Werner Erhard
There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black - in itself.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Faeces by any other name would smell as gross
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
One man's modus ponens is another man's reductio, as epistemologists are forever pointing out (In Critical Condition, p. 70)
— Jerry A. Fodor
Ambition' is 'greed' rebranded.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.
— Jerry Fodor
The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
— H.R. Haldeman
Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.
— Alfred Korzybski
Looking at what 'foreplay' is, 'sexual intercourse' is a game.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.
— Cormac McCarthy
The thought is not the thing.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti