Quote by John Stuart Mill

“When we predicate of any thing an abstract name, we affirm of the thing that it is one or other of these five things;…

— John Stuart Mill

“This leads to the consideration of a third great division of names, into connotative and non-connotative, the latter sometimes, but improperly, called absolute.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Of two or more competing theories, the simpler theory is most likely correct.”

— Mike Dooley

“And one of the commonest forms of fallacious reasoning arising from ambiguity, is that of arguing from a metaphorical expression as if it were…

— John Stuart Mill

“Symbolism is the science of understanding the relations between the multiple levels of reality.”

— Huston Smith

“The fifth leading division of names is into relative and absolute, or let us rather say, relative and non-relative; for the word absolute is…

— John Stuart Mill

In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word,…

— I. A. Richards

If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

— Carl Jung

In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies…

— Arthur Schuster

“Representation involves definition, exclusion, separation.”

— John Holloway

Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the…

— Judith Butler