Semantics Quotes

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Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

What you believe you experience.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.

You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.

The pervert." "He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant." "Semantics.

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

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.

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

The description is not the described.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

The thought is not the thing.

The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I do), I'd be a good Thatcherite.

With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged.

Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is semantics.

The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules.

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

Colorless green ideas sleep furiouslythree old owls on a chest of drawerswere screwingthe daughter of the doctor.But then the mother called them, colorless green ideas slepp furiously.

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

Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.

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

Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.

The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.

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

Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.

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.

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.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

In order to understand what happened, we'll use words in the way that they exist: as drawers of distinction between ideas.

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

Overrated is order.

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.

It is not what you meant to say, but it is what your saying meant.

You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled.

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

But if we decide contextually specific questions of synonymy on the basis of the total semantic range of each word, any synonymy in any context is virtually impossible.