
Nihilism
In Our Time: Philosophy
The Misreading of Cesare
The common idea nowadays is that truths are relative to communities of discourse. This is based, at least in part, on a very profound misreading of cesare. What cesare did was point out the fact that words don't have meaning in isolation. They have meanings only as a part of a system of meanings. Words have meanings only in their opposition to other words. Like cat? Does that own any of it in opposition? Well, exactly.
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