The Importance of Context

In some ways, it kind of overturns e reductive scientific vision that we've lived with on and off since enlightenment. All the things that are really most powerful for us can't easily be just made into explicit sentences in er in prose. The only way we can approach them using language seems to me to be obliquely devil. Buto you touch there on a very important point of context. It seems to me that context is everything. It completely changes the meaning of what one is dealing with. Now, the context of a word alone can make it mean something quite different.

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