Norm Dahl, Western Washington University An Unimportant Connection Between A Couple of Interesting Old Timers Norm Dahl and Edward R. Murrow were born and raised in a small village called Bow-Edison, about 20 miles south of my hometown of Bellingham, Washington. Since they were born roughly ten years apart, in 1920 and 1908, respectively, they…

This brief item addresses the challenges surrounding “foundationalism” in language theory and epistemology. It seems that neither meaning nor knowledge can be traced to a definite resting place, a firm basis that keeps everything intact and leaves nothing out. There appears to be a circularity in both linguistic meaning and cognitive claims that undermines every…