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proximoception ([personal profile] proximoception) wrote2012-12-19 05:32 pm

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Doors revolving too fast go to go-fast-too revolving doors.

[identity profile] toctoc.livejournal.com 2012-12-20 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
semordnilaps

[identity profile] nightspore.livejournal.com 2012-12-21 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Semantically semi-"semi" ones, somewhat amiss? I miss them.

Alright, since it's a semantic question...

[identity profile] toctoc.livejournal.com 2012-12-21 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
...the logic--chop away.

I admit sheepishly simply to liking the sound of the word.

Re: Alright, since it's a semantic question...

[identity profile] nightspore.livejournal.com 2012-12-21 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
I actually always wondered about logic-chopping. There it was in Romeo and Juliet, Capulet asking, enraged, "How, how, how? Chop-logic, what is this?" And I sort of got it, but didn't. Then I read Quine say of his student Burton Dreben, many years later, that he chopped logic with the best of them. So that sort of made sense of the Shakespeare, until I realized that Quine must have been getting it from Shakespeare.

Anyhow, I like the sound of it too: it reminds me of Semiramide, an opera I love.