January 23, 2010

#138

A certain intellectual courtesy makes us prefer the ambiguous word. The univocal term subjects the universe to its arbitrary rigidity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 43

1 comment:

  1. The original Spanish is:

    Cierta cortesía intelectual nos hace preferir la palabra ambigua. El vocablo unívoco somete el universo a su arbitraria rigidez.

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