Logic Chases Truth Up The Tree Of

We Do Not Learn First What To Talk About And Then What To Say About It.

Uncritical Semantics Is The Myth Of A Museum In Which The Exhibits Are Meanings And The Words Are Labels. To Switch Languages Is To Change The Labels.

Language Is Conceived In Sin And Science Is Its Redemption.

Different Persons Growing Up In The Same Language Are Like Different Bushes Trimmed And Trained To Take The Shape Of Identical Elephants. The Anatomical Details Of Twigs And Branches Will Fulfill The Elephantine Form Differently From Bush To Bush, But The Overall Outward Results Are Alike.

Some Have Said That The Thesis [of Indeterminacy] Is A Consequence Of My Behaviorism. Some Have Said That It Is A Reductio Ad Absurdum Of My Behaviorism. I Disagree With This Second Point, But I Agree With The First. I Hold Further That The Behaviorism Approach Is Mandatory. In Psychology One May Or May Not Be A Behaviorist, But In Linguistics One Has No Choice.