Nice post! There can be some surprising language-barriers between early modern writers and today’s readers. I remember as an undergrad getting very confused by a passage from Locke in which he often used the word ‘sensible.’ I took him to mean ‘prudent’ and only later discovered he meant ‘can be sensed’!
Nice post! There can be some surprising language-barriers between early modern writers and today’s readers. I remember as an undergrad getting very confused by a passage from Locke in which he often used the word ‘sensible.’ I took him to mean ‘prudent’ and only later discovered he meant ‘can be sensed’!