Both Montaigne and Diderot notice the curious relationship between what "is" on the exterior and "the truth." Diderot suggests that all women are deceptive in nature and that if they spoke openly social disorder would ensue. It's interesting that the genitals were chosen as the medium through which the woman's assertive and selfish desires would come from. Perhaps Diderot is trying to say that there is a separation between what one pretends to want (like a performance) and what one actually wants. Also, that what one actually want comes from the genitals infers that all desire is originally sexual.
Montaigne's essay was less direct in its argument (probably because it's Montaigne, the guy who believed in discovering ones argument in the process of writing an essay). From what I understand, he beleived that the imagination could physically change what "is." A person's desire could engulf what was previously regarded as the truth and become the new truth.
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