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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Listening to a th-fronter talking of viss and vat rather than this and that, ven might be assumed to be then even when referring to a diagram. A ‘then diagram’ could be part of a before and after explanation, with first being random facts, attributes, characteristics, and then big circles shepherding them into relationships and contexts.
What I kind of want is a ‘decision tree’ if you like (like a then diagram), to suggest options as to what could come next.
The problem with that is everybody has a then diagram with them at the centre and the other disciplines hovering around the outside.
‘Cause if you were sort of make a then diagram, there’s not a lot of overlap between those two circles for a lot of people.
... a then diagram of overlapping circles and map the advocates of white nationalism, those who are hostile to LGBTQ equality and the opponents …
And what’s today is sometimes called a then diagram. It makes that almond shape where the two become one, but then the outer sides of both circles where …
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First class.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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