> We all use absolutes, because an ideal which seems to exist apart form time, space, and circumstance... A 100 year old typo! I always understood that the te

> We all use absolutes, because an ideal which seems to exist apart form time, space, and circumstance... A 100 year old typo! I always understood that the terms liberty,freedom,independence,slavery,bondage and servitude must imply a subject to have meaning. Two persons can talk about liberty but they presume the other person agrees the subject of the term in the listener's understand is the same as theirs. I think that's what the author means. But also, it's not just an ideal that is the subject but specific person(s).