(urth) I, even I, would celebrate, in rhymes inept the great...
Lee
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Fri Oct 17 08:26:19 PDT 2014
>Marc Aramini: These are linguistic truths built into the definitions themselves ...
>Antonio Marques: Even merely human communication and language are not chained
>to what logic is able to dream of.
I am thinking of the Biblical passage in which "a cherubim" is set to guard the Garden of
Eden. An illogical linguistic construction, where a singular article is paired with a plural
noun, is used to describe an angelic being which does not fit into a logical framework of
human comprehension yet still, apparently, is assumed to exist.
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