It is one of the consolations of philosophy 

that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept 

does not hinge on dispensing with it.

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 the labels.

To be is to be the value of a variable.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

Language is a social art.

Meaning is what essence becomes 

when it is divorced from the object of reference 

and wedded to the word.