(no subject)

i am almost done with my paper. probably the word 'normativity' will come out of it altogether: it's only in the introductory paragraphs now. it's useless because i mean it as a shorthand for "generalization" + "projection" + the primacy of our own points of view. since i'm interested in why all these things go together, i might as well talk about them in their own rights. i feel sort of cheesy about being so self-referential--writing a whole paper to show why one's knowledge of the way to use words in one's language cannot solve the meno paradox (since i once thought it could); but it seems fairly relevant, given that the whole book is about why criteria for using words do not solve things; in fact, i think it's more relevant (to the problems inherent in the--right--picture of language) than the skeptical problems discussed, since it directly concerns our knowledge of concepts. also i want to say that the possibility of skepticism is rooted in the problem of projecting words, but i'm not sure this is true.

freedom

Does freedom also mean being free from ourselves? Or is that nonsensical? (Because the parts of ourselves that trap us are somehow external?)