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Meanings Of Words Quotes

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

S. I. Hayakawa
Meanings Of Words
S. I. HAYAKAWA (1941). “LANGUAGE IN ACTION”

It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.

Wilson Follett
Usage, Meanings Of Words

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

Plutarch
Mean, Understanding, Meanings Of Words
Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.1439, Delphi Classics

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