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The article discusses the importance of understanding the influence of Petrus Ramus' logic in history of American philosophers who tried to avoid the traditional bivalent logic of dualism. Ramian logic distinguishes a boundary between the logic of identity and difference which forms a territory between medieval and Renaissance worlds. On the other hand, logics of similitude disclose the world as endless play of resemblances which takes resemblance ontologically and words as marks of resemblance.

Comments on the paper by George Yancy about the African-American dialect and its role as a form of black resistance to white domination. Recognition of the inherent risks for white scholars and philosophers to venture into the semiotic space of the Afro-American experience through the use of language; Explanation of why letting white people into the code of linguistic understanding among Blacks also risks reinforcing a particular habit of white privilege, that of ontological expansiveness.

Focuses on the views of American philosophers Stanley Cavell and Henry Bugbee on why people take up philosophy. Cavell's definition of philosophy as the search for one's voice; Bugbee's view of philosophy as the search for the anthem native to one's tongue; Background on the works of Cavell and Bugbee.