Words are saturated with time. We are saturated with words for we are temporal beings. Language is not merely a system of semiotics, it doesn't merely represent the world. Rather it constructs it, performs it, creates it and destroys it. It morphs aspects of our reality and forces them to filter through its phonetic and conceptual prisms. If language performs, then the dictionary of all possible words is the cosmos. Welcome to the world of language, the reality in which we live...

Monday, May 17, 2010

Versions of Certainty

dictionaries seek to define words with certainty and that is the way they relate to knowledge
no one dictionary can provide full certainty of a word across all contexts
any one dictionary is A dictionary not THE dictionary, it is a version always and already
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