Our readingWhat is a korrent?
When a label applies to everything it describes nothing, and we lose the ability to notice the real thing.
Drawn from what Massimo Pigliucci said
What Massimo Pigliucci actually said
- Massimo Pigliucci Philosopher at the City College of New York who writes about Stoicism
Because, arguably, when a word applies to everything it describes nothing, and the cost is not pedantic but epistemic: we lose the ability to notice when the real thing shows up.
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