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  • We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character... We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly.

    "Philosophy of Science", Volume 37 (p. 157), 1934; later quoted in Roger Gerhard Newton "The Truth of Science: Physical Theories and Reality" (p. 176), 1997.