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I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

Alfred Korzybski
Ideas, Want, Isolation
Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.50, Institute of GS
I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.