"Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of h…"

"Sentences are not as such either true or false."

"We speak of people "taking refuge" in vagueness — the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be …"

"Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all convent…"

"There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indica…"

"The Nicomachean Ethics is only intended as a guide for politicians, and they are only concerned to know what is good,…"

"Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?"

"In one sense "there are" both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: sta…"

"But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense "red" and "blue" any more than "resemblance" (or "qualities" any more…"

"'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer."