"Language has logical and psychological meanings which may be illustrated through a closer look at the words house and home... Objectively, the definition (the logical dimension) of house and home are similar... but subjectively, home is a much richer word, for to its logical content is added emotional content (the psychological dimension)... The fact that house has practically no psychological dimension while home has much accounts for the different effects produced by the following lines which are equivalent in their logical dimensions."
House, house, loved, loved house!
There's no place like my house! There's no place like my house!
Home, home, sweet, sweet home!
There's no place like home! There's no place like home!
- John Howard Payne, "Clari, the Maid of Milan"
Source: "The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric", Sister Miriam Joseph
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