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> The fact that he wrote this long post shows that he is not at peace.

Nitpick: technically/scientifically, facts do not have volition.



Are you saying because "facts" are not sentient beings, they cannot be the subject for the verb "to show"?


They have an involvement in the process/phenomenon, but it is the mind that is doing the majority of the work (the actual implementation of "shows"). And, as science has well demonstrated, the mind is a highly unreliable instrument, and is a particularly important one in that it renders "reality" itself.

I'm a big fan of this essay, mainly for this one line:

>> There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”

https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/




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