The World Has Far Too Much Morality.

Semantics Is About The Relation Of Words To Thoughts, But It Also About The Relation Of Words To Other Human Concerns. Semantics Is About The Relation Of Words To Reality - The Way That Speakers Commit Themselves To A Shared Understanding Of The Truth, And The Way Their Thoughts Are Anchored To Things And Situations In The World.

What Is True For The Emotions May Also Be True For The Intellect. Some Of Our Perplexities May Come From A Mismatch Between The Purposes For Which Our Cognitive Faculties Evolved And The Purposes To Which We Put Them Today.

Today We Take It For Granted That War Happens In Smaller, Poorer And More Backward Countries.

One Of The Things That People Complain About Is Loneliness, Disconnectedness. If You Live In A Society Where Your Life Is Rarely Threatened And Most Of Your Relationships Are More On An Economic Exchange Basis, Then This Could Leave People Feeling Less Connected.

Something About The Topic Of Consciousness Makes People, Like The White Queen In Through The Looking Glass, Believe Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast.