ABSTRACT
To illustrate their thesis that lack of awareness of these varieties of meaning results in communication failures, Ogden and Richards have a chapter in which the dull thudding noise that throughout the book has syncopated with the bugle flourishes and rattling drumsticks of their rhetoric now cxecutes a virtuoso solo and is seen to originate from the banging together of many heads. What we have here is an exhibition of uscs of the word 'meaning', takcn from artieles and symposia (ineluding the "Meaning of Meaning" Symposium in Mind, 1920-21, Vois. 29 and 30) to su bstantiate Ogden and Richards' assertion that "the resort to such a term in serious argument, as though it had some accepted use, or as though the author's use wcre at once obvious, is a practice to be discredited" (273). Though the chapter is entitled The Meaning 0/ Philosophers, others are ineluded; "so helpful a term", they writc, "is equally in demand as a carminative in ecclesiastical controversy, as a vade mecum in musical criticism, as an indication of the precise point where doctors differ, and as a
1 Philosophical Investigatiol1s, 1953, Sect. 67. 18
