(b)logophile

[I]t is to little purpose, that an engine amuses the philosopher by the subtilty of its mechanism, if it requires so much knowledge in its application, as to be of no advantage to the common workman. —Samuel Johnson Johnson was talking about dictionaries, but the same principle goes for a lot of design work — [...]

I have the feeling that he’s cutting a pumpkin with a pair of shoes, only sometimes it’s not a pumpkin at all. —Gianluca

The papers are published in their original form, except for minor corrections (such as, at one point, changing “true” to “false” and at another “guilt” to “innocence”). –Robert Stalnaker, in the acknowledgements to Context and Content.