Eigenmorality (2014)
&gt; A moral person is someone who cooperates with other moral people, and who refuses to cooperate with immoral people.<p>One immediate property of this is it is too symmetric: assuming &quot;honor amoung thieves&quot; (immoral people cooperate with immoral people and refuse to cooperate with moral people), it is unchanged under interchange of &quot;moral&quot; and &quot;immoral&quot;. That is, it can&#x27;t tell you whether it&#x27;s calling good &quot;moral&quot; or evil &quot;moral&quot;.<p>Anyway, the circular definition I&#x27;m interested in is Sausserian structuralism: the meaning of a sign is determined by its place in a system of signs. I suppose in linguistics the article&#x27;s construction then leads to eigenwords, but I am skeptical that eigenwords actually advance our understanding of semantics. I&#x27;m not as optimistic about the power of this construction to advance our epistemology as the author.