YES! Not only has he successfully wrecked the notion that "words
  can have absolute meaning" but ALSO wrecked the notion that
  words can have a hierarchical deriving of meaning FROM each
  other because to do so, you end up with an absolute, with the
  ultimate absolute being God, which we nowadays unsatisfactorally
  substitute with "Nothing": Same attempt of concreteness but a
  replacement of "nothing" for "God". HAH! Loving this. "The
  classical theory is inextricable from its commitment that the
  meaning of a word is an accompanying concept in the mind. The
  implausibility of that underlying account of meaning makes it
  im- possible to repair the classical theory. Further, the
  classical theory, especially in Cajetan's exposition, (1498:
  ch.ll, no. 123), makes assumptions about the priority of
  meanings over one another that can be supported only on doubtful
  metaphysical premises, for instance, that 'exists', applied to
  God, is 'prior' in meaning to 'exists', applied to creatures
  because the being of God is ontologi- cally prior to that of
  creatures (Aquinas, In. I Sent., 22,1,2 c.)"

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