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haven't read that book, but it's not unusual since language is finite.
by billwear 2y ago
haven't read that book, but it's not unusual since language is finite.
- skrebbel 2y agoLanguage is finite in the same way as our supply of UUIDs is, ie, not finite at all in any practical sense.
- asdftemp 2y agoattempt to interpret the parent comment more charitably: when different people who've shared a common experience try to put it into words, there is some consistency between what they write. the harder the experience is to verbalize, the harder it is to come up with meaningfully different precise descriptions of it, and the more aware you are of the limitations of language