giovedì 23 novembre 2017

Words and philosophy

If words are more than mere means for conveying ideas, if they interpose themselves already in the process by which ideas are formed, then the question of how to limit improper speech can no longer be confined to handbooks of oratorical practice; rather, it becomes the business of philosophy itself.

Zachary Sng, The rhetoric of error form Locke to Kleist

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