Some truisms regarding linguistic communication: 1: The content of an assertion is a function of both the sentence actually uttered and its context. 2: The context is not under the speaker’s direct and total control. 3: The content of an utterance is attributed to its speaker in a way that makes them responsible of their […]
On miscontextualizing history
we can interpret historical texts either as saying something particular about their concrete context of creation, or something more general about more abstract philosophical problems – which therefore would still be relevant to philosophical discussions todays, but it would be a mistake to interpret those texts directly in our context as if they had been written today
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 