Full Idea
The meaning of a word contains all its possible uses, true and false, not only its actual ones.
Gist of Idea
The meaning of a word contains all its possible uses as well as its actual ones
Source
Thomas Nagel (What Does It All Mean? [1987], Ch.5)
Book Reference
Nagel,Thomas: 'What Does It All Mean?' [OUP 1987], p.46
A Reaction
It has always seemed to me that meaning is not use, because you can't use it if it hasn't already got a meaning. What use is a meaningless word?