‘There is at least one cow in Scotland, of which one side appears to be brown.‘
According to Montaigne’s essay on inconsistency, we’re so fickle and unpredictable that it has led some to believe man has two souls. In practice, we observe that no two contexts are ever the same. Different behaviour results from different contexts. This observation makes Montaigne the first general semanticist, more than three centuries before Alfred Korzybski. Continue reading Beware the allness trap
