Full Idea
Whenever there's speech it has to be about something. It's impossible for it not to be about something.
Gist of Idea
Whenever there's speech it has to be about something
Source
Plato (The Sophist [c.358 BCE], 262e)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Complete Works', ed/tr. Cooper,John M. [Hackett 1997], p.286
A Reaction
[Quoted by Marcus about ontological commitment] The interesting test case would be speech about the existence of circular squares.