Chapter 12 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
The Words Show the Change
April 19th, 2010
The trouble with word-evidence, of course, is that people — and chimpanzees and camouflaging plants — can be dishonest. That is, they can fashion a gap between what they say and what they mean, if no material payment or other physical act is involved. “I just love that outfit!” can mean in the right circumstances, (more…)
