Syntactically, Black Lives Matter is a complete sentence in English, but it’s only (what Rudolf Carnap has called) a pseudo-sentence. It’s not a real sentence because mattering is a two-place relation. If something is to matter, it has to matter… Read More ›
Month: October 2026
WHY PHILOSOPHY MATTERS
When people say, “The time has come to …”, what they’re implying is that until now it hadn’t. Come, that is. So apparently sexual violence was okay until this morning. The rote politician response to a tragedy is, “Our hearts… Read More ›
