Commit Quote by Steven Pinker

... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases…

— Alfred Tarski

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

— Roman Jakobson

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of…

— Felix Frankfurter

There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics.

— Werner Erhard

If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually…

— Ray Kurzweil

In recognizing that words have power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language which is…

— Richard M. Weaver

The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a great storehouse…

— Richard M. Weaver

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

— Joseph Joubert

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each…

— Anonymous

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

— Jim Rohn

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to…

— Willard Van Orman Quine