Plain language versus structure. That’s the debate the parties offer the court Tuesday morning in Kemp v. United States. The case involves a small detail of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure – the ...

The 'Private Language' sections of the Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein: 1958) §§ 243-315 serve to undermine the idea that our ordinary felt sensations, e.g., of heat, or cold, or pain, ...

Language and law are both involved in a worryingly drawn-out struggle to strangle each other in the name of their founding doctrines – which is to say, for language to express and for law to legislate ...