------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.htmlThe best prophylaxis to brake these hubristic heuristic tendencies is
Wittgenstein's checker: The world is everything that is the case, and that
of which we cannot speak, of that we must remain silent.Wasn't it Borges who wrote that for a map to be sufficiently detailed as to replicate the landscapeit would would have to be huge- so huge that it would become a feature of the landscape? Thusit is that to deeply understand we must intrude and disturb, making everything different.David Savory