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Why Language Matters

Justin
May 12, 2010
1:04 pm
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Failures of understanding… always take the form of bad language. Just as there is nothing but language in which to make sense, there is nothing but language in which to make nonsense.

Richard Mitchell: The Gift of Fire, p. 11

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