Cases Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus:…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

— William Safire

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

— Alfred Marshall

Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. You determine what something means.

— Neale Donald Walsch

“A word's meaning depends not so much on its linguistic past but rather on the place the word occupies in relation to the general…

— Anonymous

Not all words fit into their meanings. Sometimes, what is said is not what is meant and what is meant is left unsaid

— Abhishek Tiwari

It turns out, in fact, that 'theories of meaning' are typically not about meaning in an everyday or 'folk' sense at all. They are…

— David E. Cooper

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

— Dave Barry

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

— William Safire

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything.

— Andrew Lakey

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

— Douglas Hofstadter