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Ordinary language is all right.
One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.
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'… which questions these facts answer and which facts would begin to speak if other questions were asked are hermeneutical questions.'
H. writes from Dubai, sez the Doritos in the airport are refrigerated.
I don't know what to say about that.
'For now, we need only consider a thoroughgoing position that any ingredient or constituent could be describable in terms of properties. Only a philosopher could want to say that an omelet has the property of being made of eggs. Why?'
When you buy a bike, they don't tell you that you're basically going to bleed a lot more often, if you didn't much before. All over the place! It's like your body is a pump or something.
Convention (formula) as compact: '… no matter how bad things get, the story will end'.