on certainty 61

61. …A meaning of a word is a kind of employment of it.

For it is what we learn when the world is incorporated into our language.

a meaning of a word –

is an employment of it –

a use of it

its meaning / employment –

is always open to question –

open to doubt

the world in the absence of description –

is unknown

the world described –

is the world known

any description –

is uncertain

© greg t. charlton. 2009.