 | Jon M. Sweeney - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 220 pages
...flippantly. Words were powerful because their meanings were intrinsic. We were not Humpty Dumptys who said: "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less." We didn't have the luxury of selecting what our words would mean;... | |
 | Simon Danser - Archetype (Psychology) - 2005 - 225 pages
...p5860; Zizek 1 989 Chapter 2 The meaning of myth Myth can only be understood mythically. Jean Rudhart When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less. Humpty Dumpty, in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Class Confession... | |
 | Eric V. Anslyn, Dennis A. Dougherty - Science - 2006 - 1148 pages
...was provided by KU Ingold, leading him to invoke a quote from Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland: "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less". Actually, this is an appropriate description of the typical usage... | |
 | Clyde Freeman Herreid - Education - 2007 - 483 pages
...how Lewis Carroll, writing in Alice Through the Looking Glass, put it when he had Humpty Dumpty say, "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." But Alice replied: "The question is whether you can make words... | |
 | Clayton Sullivan - Religion - 2006 - 148 pages
...with this definition. In defining adultery the church is like Lewis Carroll's Humpty Dumpty, who said, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." Adultery is forbidden in the seventh commandment of the Decalogue... | |
 | Richard A. Viguerie - Political Science - 2006 - 286 pages
...health, that health is what the abortionist says it is. Most schoolchildren have heard this famous line: "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." This quotation comes from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland,... | |
 | Bruce Rosenblum, Fred Kuttner - Science - 2006 - 224 pages
...roughly equivalent to "awareness," or perhaps the feeling of awareness. (As Humpty Dumpty told Alice: "When I use a word ... it means just what I choose it to mean," and the philosopher Wittgenstein would more or less agree.) It's often pointed out that we... | |
 | S. Neil MacFarlane, Yuen Foong Khong - Political Science - 2006 - 378 pages
...political measures. Of course anyone can insist, as Humpty Dumpty did in Through the Looking Glass, that "when I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."5 MacFarlane and Khong express some doubts about the "analytical... | |
 | Roy Lee Grover - Fiction - 2006 - 188 pages
...longer afford to play Humpty Dumpty. Lewis Carroll put words into the mouth of Humpty Dumpty to wit, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." In such a case, without an understanding of the terms used, communication... | |
 | Greg S. Deuble - Religion - 2006 - 430 pages
...Buzzard reminds his readers of the humorous words of Humpty Dumpty who said in a rather scornful tone:] "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."7 It is certain that when God speaks to us He does not intend us... | |
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When I use a word ... it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less. 
