The second is a well-known quote from the eminent U.S. Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart, who when discussing the concept of pornography and its relationship to free speech in a landmark decision of 1964 made the following marvelous comment: I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [“hard-core pornography”]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it. Just substitute the word “complexity” for “hard-core pornography” and that’s pretty much what many of us would
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