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The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived. The fact that those distantly related Indo-European languages had almost the same pronunciation of a single word meant that the word—and the concept behind it—had most
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“To discover that the many are the one, and that the one is the many, is to realize that both are words and noises representing what is at once obvious to sense and feeling, and an enigma to logic and description.” This brought me back to our discussion of language
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“But if you and your thoughts are part of this universe, you cannot stand outside them to describe them.” Excerpt From: Alan Watts & Deepak Chopra. “The Wisdom of Insecurity.” Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011-11-16. Apple Books.
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“It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking” One of the ideas I’ve been wrestling with since reading Jaynes has been this idea of other people’s thoughts in our minds. Thinking is silent talking; listening is letting someone else think for a moment. When you’
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absolutenegation.wordpress.com/2022/10/10/language-is-not-what-you-think-it-is/ This made me think of Gödel's incompleteness theorem, only applied to language instead of mathematics.
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Looking back at my first encounter with this person, I remember my senses recoiling and a taste of rotting fruits wafting into my consciousness at a very low decibel level, like a softly buzzing basso continuo of vomit. One of the best sentences that I’ve read in a long