26 February 2019 - turn your back

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Ambiguity is everything that you didn’t say. In “Turn your back on turning back, and get moving” we may notice the ambiguity. But language is weak and can’t say much. “I’ll race you home” says little, but doesn’t feel ambiguous; we suffer from the belief that we can interpret it. The purpose of reality is to make our language useful by filling in the important points we left out.

clue:

As Lojbanists say, the price of infinite precision is infinite verbosity.

give me a clue so sweet and true

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