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ML192: Iain McGilchrist on The Matter with Things, The 4 Paths to Understanding & Answering The Big Questions

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Is There a Doo That Can Be Named?

"I sweated blood over it because i didn't want to betray the subject," he says. "Everything that i said, because it was in language, was going to be intrinsically limited" The final substantive chapter before the epilogue took him longer per word than any other piece of work she's ever written. He writes: "You speak about it and you reduce something irreducible."

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