Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

意义是本质脱离了指称的对象而依附于词时所变成的东西。

-- Willard Van Orman Quine 威拉德·冯·奥曼·蒯因