• For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein: For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
    "Philosophical Investigations" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (§ 43), 1953.