Semantics Quotes

38 quotes by 28 authors

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end… — Dan Brown
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of… — Alfred Tarski
The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation. — Guy Steele
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. — H R Haldeman
If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics. — Betty Buckley
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. — Glenn Beck
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which… — Felix Frankfurter
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results… — John Searle
Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads. — Jerry Fodor
There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics. — Werner Erhard
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… — Willard Van Orman Quine
ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are counters, not coins;… — Milton Steinberg
Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something… — Shailene Woodley
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain… — David Riesman
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… — Roman Jakobson
There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might sound like semantics,… — Maynard Webb
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. — Alfred Korzybski
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. — Alfred Korzybski
Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the… — Steven Pinker
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… — Len Wein

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