“Meaning” is one of the words of which one may say that they have odd jobs in our language. It is these words which cause most philosophical troubles. Imagine an institution most members of which have certain regular functions, functions which can easily be described, say, in the statutes of the institution. There are, on the other hand, some members who are employed for odd jobs, which nevertheless may be extremely important. ‒ ‒ ‒ What causes most trouble in philosophy is that we are tempted to describe the use of important “odd-job” words as though they were words with regular functions.
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