Kant and the Platypus Quotes

“Language does not construct being ex novo: it questions it, in some way always finding something already given (even though being already given does not mean being already finished and completed). Even if being were moth-eaten, there would always be a fabric whose warp and web, confused by the infinite holes that have eaten into it, still subsist in some stubborn way.”
― Umberto Eco, Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition

“It has been said that narrative worlds are always little worlds, because they do not constitute a maximal and complete state of things. In this sense narrative worlds are parasitical, because, if the alternative properties are not specified, we take for granted the properties that hold good in the real world.”
― Umberto Eco, Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition

“Así pues, para definir el ser, hay que decir es, y usar de ese modo el término definido en la definición».”
― Umberto Eco, Kant y el ornitorrinco