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 +"When I use a [[word]],' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." <br>
 +"The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things."<br>
 +"The question is,' said [[Humpty Dumpty]], 'which is to be master."<br>
 +[[The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things|[...]]] --''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]''
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-:“‘The question is,’ said [[Alice]], ‘whether you can make [[word]]s mean so many different things’” ([[Lewis Carroll]]). 
 +“The question is whether you can make [[word]]s [[meaning|mean]] so many different things” is a dictum uttered by [[Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)|Alice]] in [[Lewis Carroll]]'s ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]''.
 +==See also==
 +*[[Ambiguity]]
 +*[[Polysemy]]
 +*[[Nominalism]]
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"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."
"The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things."
"The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master."
[...] --Through the Looking-Glass

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“The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things” is a dictum uttered by Alice in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

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