• otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    To put a finer point on it, your understanding of the author’s understanding of the thing in this instance is a third Venn circle without much overlap to those first two. 🤌🏾

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      4 months ago

      Also, many retellings of the thing in different languages with different understandings and intentions over many centuries.

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      4 months ago

      “the thing” itself is (and should be) missing from the diagram.