Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about. - Willard Van Orman Quine

We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last to lay the old aside, it might not be a better world, but it would be a lovelier language.

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.