...Certainly," said Alice. " And only one for birthday presents, you know. There 's glory for you ! " " I don't know what you mean by ' glory,' " Alice said....Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. " Of course you don 't — till I tell you. I meant ' there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'" " But ' glory,'...

...presents " "Certainly," said Alice. "And only one for birthday presents, you know. There's glory for you." "I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said....Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knockdown argument for you!' " "But 'glory' doesn't...

..."Certainly," said Alice. 2145 "And only one for birthday presents, you know. There's glory for you!" "I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' " Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously, aso "Of course you don't — till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'...

...brine to mind a passage from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Oln** and What Alice Found There: "I don't know what you mean by 'glory.' " Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course yon don't — till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you.' '* "But 'glory'...

...at times a brilliant Carrollian skepticism that cuts through stupid convention to a profound truth: "I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'!" Alice said....Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knockdown argument for you!'" [268-69] Like Dodgson,...

...accordance with those by Wittgenstein. 5 Lewis Carroll had already perceived the control function of speech: 'I don't know what you mean by "glory"', Alice said....'Of course you don't — till I tell you. I meant there is a nice knock-down argument for you!', 'But glory doesn't mean a nice knock-down argument',...

...what is probably the most celebrated counterexample in the English language: "There's glory for you!" "I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said....contemptuously. "Of course you don't — till I tell you. I mean 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'" "But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,'"...

...UNE CONSTELLATION Toute Pensee emet un Coup de Des Hazerdous hazard ' 'There 's glory for you! ' ' "I don't know what you mean by 'glory' ", Alice said....contemptuously. "Of course you don't— till I tell you. 1 meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you' ". "But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down...

..."coerces" the meaning the word normally has.-^' The bill prohibits the jury from giving appropriate — ' "I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' Alice said....Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't--till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you1"! (continued . . . ) weight...

...Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, quoted by Caird (1980, pp. 38-39), seems pertinent: "There's glory for you!' 'I don't know what you mean by "glory", Alice said....Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't-till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knockdown argument for you!'. 'But "glory" doesn't mean...