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"Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word."
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"Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness."
"I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand."
"The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things."
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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."
"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."
"It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it."
"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."
"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."
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