“Although we may recognize words ‘without context’, by »definition… we cannot really understand them this way. To understand language, we use »connotation, and this derives not from definition but from relationships… and »connotations within the relational contexts in which they are used, as well as our personal linguistic history.

This is an absolutely crucial thing for language-users to apprehend and validate for themselves… because as we become ‘more modern’ we may find that what this means is that our sense of context is becoming more and more abstract. The result is that our understandings are damaged and severely limited, where they are not merely invented, by contexts that partake not of participation… but, instead, subscription to a kind of abstraction that is as uninhabitable as it is verbally fictitious.”

— an intelligence agent