sentences:  In spite of this, he insisted such classifications could be useful, in the sense of pragmatic rather than abstract utility.Vaz Ferreira conceived of language itself as a system of classification in which to speak of something is merely to establish its place in a simplified scheme, and therefore to detach it from the complexity of reality.This detachment allows a distinction to be made between reality and its expression, avoiding "transcendentalization", shifting the burden of ontological concerns to the linguistic level, where they need not be contemplated.