Cadzao Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
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Koestler wrote:
"The lesson taught by this type of experience, when put into words, always appears under the dowdy guise of perennial commonplaces: that man is a reality, mankind an abstraction; that men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic, because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinte, which dislocate all methemmatical operations; that the end justifies the means only within very narrow limits; (...). Nothing can sound more flatfooted than such verbalizations of a knowledge which is not of a verbal nature; yet every single one of these trivial statements was incompatible with the Communist faith which I help."
Would you please explain the red clause and the blue sentence?
Thank you so much.
Cadzao
"The lesson taught by this type of experience, when put into words, always appears under the dowdy guise of perennial commonplaces: that man is a reality, mankind an abstraction; that men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic, because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinte, which dislocate all methemmatical operations; that the end justifies the means only within very narrow limits; (...). Nothing can sound more flatfooted than such verbalizations of a knowledge which is not of a verbal nature; yet every single one of these trivial statements was incompatible with the Communist faith which I help."
Would you please explain the red clause and the blue sentence?
Thank you so much.
Cadzao
Top answer
the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathemmatical operations they behave in special ways, for which special rules are in effect Nothing can sound less inspired/stupid than such verbalizations of a knowledge which is not of a verbal nature
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the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathemmatical operations
they behave in special ways, for which special rules are in effect
Nothing can sound less inspired/stupid than such verbalizations of a knowledge which is not of a verbal nature
they behave in special ways, for which special rules are in effect
Nothing can sound less inspired/stupid than such verbalizations of a knowledge which is not of a verbal nature
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