Language and Experience, with Isabela Granic
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)
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The Opposite Pull of Philosophy
Poetry is notorious for the fact. that you can't really change any word in a poem without ruining its effect, right? So with good, the better the poetry is, the harder it is to change anything about it, right? And so there's a sense in which that is the kind of opposite pull of this where you deeply cannot touch it. It doesn't make sense. In other words, philosophy is not that philosophy is not poetry, although philosophers did end up writing poetry. You know, kind of like, in otherwords, it allows for summarizing and it allows for rephrasing and all these kinds of things, which arguably a novel even does not. But
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