But he also points out that the making of nominal essences is constrained both by usage (where words standing for ideas that are already in use) and by the fact that substance words are supposed to copy the properties of the substances they refer to.
"C'était ouf!" is how he often describes some exciting or exceptional event — the punched-in-the-gut exhalation of that last word standing in for anything more precise.
He was a patriarch in the best sense of the word, standing at the ready for his children and grandchildren, nephews and nieces, as the need arose.
But in the garden itself -- that one word standing in mid-March for a string of sodden beds and bare dirt -- the purpose is ultimately to create a re-ordering of the wild order, a place of redistributed complexity with an overlying, plainly perceptible simplicity.
Unexpectedly, he won a big vote and became embroiled with his bete noire, Haughey, for whom he later coined the word Gubu – standing for "grotesque, unusual, bizarre and unprecedented".
But Susan is long dead and Claire is now a middle-aged woman, lost for words, standing over her dying father's bed.
While the Donald took every chance to castigate Hillary, pointing at her petulantly, blaming her for this and "her sleazy campaign" for that, Hillary stayed on message, strategically citing Trump's own words, standing up for those he's dismissed, insulted, and even assaulted.
In other words, standing in the street.
It is analogous to the dictionary word "mate": "ma" standing for sincerity and "te," hand.
In fact, (1) signification consisted in the relation of a linguistic sign to what it signifies apart from any propositional context; (2) a word capable of standing for something else or for itself in a proposition had first to have signification; (3) a term only had supposition in a propositional context; and (4) the kind of supposition a term had depended on its propositional context.
As I rushed to my house, these words left me standing for half a minute outside the front door, thinking hard about whether I was putting my wife and children at risk by going in and dialling 999.
