We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
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Birth: | 25th June, 1908 |
Death: | 25th December, 2000 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Logician, Philosopher |
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