Hmm ...

... Stanley Fish on French Theory in America. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)


"... judgments of truth or falsehood are made relative to the forms of predication that have been established in public/institutional discourse. When we pronounce a judgment — this is true or that is false — the authorization for that judgment comes from those forms (Hobbes calls them “settled significations”) and not from the world speaking for itself."

Newton's third of motion: To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. True about the world whether we think it or not? Or not true about the world whether we think it or not?

I also can't help noting that something is not true just because Hobbes said it 300 years ago.