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"“The interlocked conceptual scheme of physical objects, identity, and divided reference is part of the ship which, in Neurath’s figure, we cannot remodel save as we stay afloat in it […] we are not in a position to jettison any part of it, except as we have substitution devices ready to hand” (123-124). Language is not merely referential but an integral medium of beliefs and ontological commitments." — Jan 01, 2026 07:27AM
"“The interlocked conceptual scheme of physical objects, identity, and divided reference is part of the ship which, in Neurath’s figure, we cannot remodel save as we stay afloat in it […] we are not in a position to jettison any part of it, except as we have substitution devices ready to hand” (123-124). Language is not merely referential but an integral medium of beliefs and ontological commitments." — Jan 01, 2026 07:27AM
“Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.”
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“The days wear out the months and the months wear out the years, and a flux of moments, like an unquiet tide, eat at the black coast of futurity.”
― Gormenghast
― Gormenghast
“Each moment is a place you’ve never been.”
― Collected Poems of Mark Strand
― Collected Poems of Mark Strand
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