Never let yourself be goaded into taking seriously problems about words and their meanings. What must be taken seriously are questions of fact, and assertions about facts: theories and hypotheses; the problems they solve; and the problems they raise.


Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography, Chapter 7 (p. 19), Open Court Publishing Company. 1976


Never let yourself be goaded into taking seriously problems about words and their meanings. What must be taken seriously are questions of fact, and...

Never let yourself be goaded into taking seriously problems about words and their meanings. What must be taken seriously are questions of fact, and...

Never let yourself be goaded into taking seriously problems about words and their meanings. What must be taken seriously are questions of fact, and...

Never let yourself be goaded into taking seriously problems about words and their meanings. What must be taken seriously are questions of fact, and...