The claim, made in the last chapter, that some foundational work may be needed before the resilient, long-standing quandaries can be resolved will now be reinforced by showing that these quandaries may, in fact, be the product of the way we speak. More specifically, it is posited that the source of the problem is in the way we think about human activities in general and, in particular, in the way we communicate with others and with ourselves about the activity of thinking, mathematical or otherwise. I am arguing that the different keywords around which the five quandaries revolve are not operational enough to ensure effective communication. I also show that most of them are metaphorical in nature, and metaphors are often like Trojan horses that enter discourses with hidden armies of unhelpful entailments.