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The value assigned to the symbol X must be strictly adhered to throughout the series of equations and, being predetermined, no confusion concerning what it stands for can ever arise. But when we turn to words we find them to be imperfect, elastic, and indeterminate. When we deal with mathematical symbols we expect and find a determinate meaning has been assigned to them, but when we deal with words we cannot always expect and often fail to find any fixed meaning at all.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 4 : Abstract Thought > # 128