Conceptual Vagueness Quotes

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two people can agree. The word that I'm thinking of right now is genre, one of those French words, like crêpe, that no one can pronounce both correctly and without sounding pretentious.

We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, "You don't know what you are talking about!" The second one says, "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?"

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

If a word means everything, then in means nothing.

You can call anything a sport if you want.