“For how could something count as a language that organized only experiences, sensations, surface irritations or sense data? Surely knives and forks, railroads and mountains, cabbages and kingdoms also need organizing.”
—DONALD DAVIDSON, “On the very idea of a conceptual scheme”
“‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And whether pigs have wings.'”
—LEWIS CARROLL, “The Walrus and the Carpenter“
The Cabbage Farm 