Uncritical semantics is the myth of a mu...

Words Change

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

Quote of the Day

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

- Celine Dion

Other quotes by Willard Van Orman Quine

Value

To be is to be the value of a variable.

- Willard Van Orman Quine

Nature World

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

- Willard Van Orman Quine

Science

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

- Willard Van Orman Quine

Meaning

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

- Willard Van Orman Quine

Art

Language is a social art.

- Willard Van Orman Quine

May

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

- Willard Van Orman Quine

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Change

If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.

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Change World

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

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Change Life People

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

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Power Change Life

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

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Actor Work Change

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

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