. . . All Meaning

Relying On Words To Lead You To The Truth Is Like Relying On An Incomplete Formal System To Lead You To The Truth. A Formal System Will Give You Some Truths, But As We Shall Soon See, A Formal System, No Matter How Powerful Cannot Lead To All Truths.

. . . All Meaning Comes From Analogies.

I Would Proclaim That The Vast Majority Of What [say, Scientific American] Is True-yet My Ability To Defend Such A Claim Is Weaker Than I Would Like. And Most Likely The Readers, Authors, And Editors Of That Magazine Would Be Equally Hard Pressed To Come Up With Cogent, Non-technical Arguments Convincing A Skeptic Of This Point, Especially If Pitted Against A Clever Lawyer Arguing The Contrary. How Come Truth Is Such A Slippery Beast?

Some Of Us, Perhaps All Of Us, Believe That It Is Legitimate To Kill Enemy Soldiers In A War, As If War Were A Special Circumstance That Shrinks The Sizes Of Enemy Souls.

Reductionism Is Merciless.