Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Articulate

As a thinker, writer and speaker one should strive to be articulate, clear, concise and consistent.

One should define one's terms with the caveat that we should explicitly and precise as we can be, all the time realizing and accepting the fact that human wielding of language can never completely be precise, and free of obscurity, imprecision and lack of ability to use exactly the right word in the right place in the right way to gain and convey complete comprehension of and linguistic aptitude about the core essence of any concept being discussed. Whole grasping of the truth of that idea and utter comprehension of its core essence escape any human thinker, speaker, artists or writer.

If we can come pretty close to perfectly communicating its ideational essence in symbolic language that profoundly expresses what that concept is and signifies, that is an intellectual tour de force. Only God or Fate or a highly placed angel could have expressed it more clearly and more fully.

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