Would not all we mean by communication between mind and mind be provided for if we suppose that common knowledge comes about, not from our explaining things to one another, but from things explaining themselves in the same terms to us all? Accepting the object as its own interpreter, as its own medium of communication, do we not begin to understand what is utterly dark on any other view, how it comes to pass that the resulting knowledge is a common possession?

The Usurpation Of Language (1910)