The Meaning of Meaning A Study of the Influence of Language Upon Thought and the Science of Symbolism Quotes

“Suppose someone to assert: The gostak distims the doshes. You do not know what this means; nor do I. But if we assume that it is English, we know that the doshes are distimmed by the gostak. We know too that one distimmer of doshes is a gostak. If, moreover, the doshes are galloons, we know that some galloons are distimmed by the gostak. And so we may go on, and so we often do go on.”
― C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, The Meaning of Meaning A Study of the Influence of Language Upon Thought and the Science of Symbolism