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Certainly, then, ordinary language is not the last word: in
principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon, an
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Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things;we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apar ...
Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connections they have found worth ma ...
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