@GabrielDuquette I've never understood the "degeneracy" criticism.
@ngvrnd @GabrielDuquette So it serves as an intellectual black-box wrapper for sentiment. What Korzybski calls a snarl word.
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@ngvrnd@GabrielDuquette For a much longer destruction of the concept, I strongly recommend http://dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com/2014/09/d30-ways-to-be-worst-critic-in-history.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@St_Rev@GabrielDuquette oooh general semantics. Have to dig my copy of Science and Sanity out. Never quite got through that tome. -
@ngvrnd@GabrielDuquette Hayakawa's "Language in Thought and Action" is most of the good stuff and much easier to read. -
@St_Rev@GabrielDuquette thanks I will check it out.
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