Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

I've read the script and it is rubbish.

Of course, Marxism is an example of what Karl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't a…

It was the best of times and the worst of times, and it was all of them at once.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits...A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talki…

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.