Context?

Peter J. Leithart July 19, 2008

Context determines the meaning of a word, right?

But “context” refers, in the first instance, to other words.

But their meaning must also be determined by context?

When you take all the words away, what’s left of the “context” that’s supposed to determine the word’s meaning?

Mustn’t individual words and context be (perichoretically) co-determinative?

Peter J. Leithart

Peter J. Leithart is president of the Theopolis Institute, Birmingham, Alabama. He posts regularly at his Substack, Notes from Beth-Elim.

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