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Quote #10
This is not a distinction without a difference. It is not like the affair of an old hat cocked—and a cocked old hat, about which your reverences have so often been at odds with one another—but there is a difference here in the nature of things—(8.10.3-4)
Language doesn't come after meaning but actually changes meaning when it's said. The example Tristram gives here is the word "cocked" coming before and after the phrase "old hat." He insists that the two positions change not just the meaning of the phrase but also the very thing that the phrase represents.