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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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22 Oct '26 09:00:50 PM

'Autechre is a two-person music duo.'

18 Oct '26 01:42:11 AM

'The radio is a companion that's always there.'

15 Oct '26 02:02:18 AM

'… you have that with "Crescent," that feeling of somebody trying to speak to you.'

13 Sep '26 08:13:11 PM

Plausible Worlds

10 Sep '26 11:52:45 PM

'When the student above says, "I don't know," he is not saying, then, that he has nothing to say. He is saying that he is not in a position to carry on this discussion. And so we are addressed as apprentices rather than as teachers or scholars. To speak to us as a person of status or privilege, the writer can either speak to us in our terms—in the privileged language of university discourse—or, in default (or in defiance), he can speak to us as though we were children, offering us the wisdom of experience.'

3 Sep '26 08:23:48 PM

On the way to a Humean theory of the categories

11 Aug '26 06:55:06 PM

'They don't know about the volta. Lacking this knowledge, why should they persist?'

5 Aug '26 03:56:53 PM

As slow as possible

5 Aug '26 03:46:28 PM

'… the actual dialectical challenge here is whether you, as an asker of a question, are then capable of subjecting yourself to the answer you find.'