In effect, Lewis argues, schoolchildren are implicitly taught that if they claim “that waterfall is sublime,” they are making a worthless claim, because “I have sublime feelings about that waterfall” is merely a subjective assertion. And so, the schoolchild is silently led to hold two propositions: “That all sentences containing a predicate of value are statements about the emotional state of the speaker, and, secondly, that all such statements are unimportant.”24 This is the swollen, gorged Subject. All meaning lies within when the universe has been emptied.
