An Essay Concerning Human Misunderstanding

<p>Here is a treatise on language gone wrong. It begins with a deception it continues as insanity and it culminates in tyranny. It all began as a confusion in concept.<br>So here is a treatise on concept: the silent function of language the semantics of metaphor the senses of brotherhood liberty intelligence and sanity. Here is a treatise on knowledge at once inalienable and lost resembling the latter epithet for its neglect and validated as the former in its restoration. The essay within is a criticism of the one and a guide to the other.</p><p> </p><p>An Essay Concerning Human Misunderstanding is the central entry in the eponymous series. It is a meditation on contemporary passions that burden the modern citizen. Relying on linguistic science philosophical appeal and human curiosity it locates their origin in a conceptual error which discovery is at once to the reader's satisfaction and the means of recovery.</p>