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I don't concede that there is a significant difference between the scrolls versus other nouns referring to parts of the causal chain. However, if you want to m
by perl4ever 6y ago
I don't concede that there is a significant difference between the scrolls versus other nouns referring to parts of the causal chain.
However, if you want to make the distinction, there are innumerable examples of similar usage, where written material is said to reveal something.
"these pages revealed the power of words to us as though for the first time"
"The book revealed to me a whole frightening world"
"The alchemists really believed that the Emerald Tablet revealed truths too powerful for most people to handle"
"Aside from the joke, the letter revealed his youthful trait of uttering labored, high-sounding but unsubstantial phrases"
But why exactly are you fixated on the idea that written things can't act, while apparently pretty much any other abstract or inanimate object can?
- basch 6y agoAll those examples show writing revealing an idea, not the text itself appearing. The structure of the original sentence is just harder to parse at first glance because it's missing words or punctuation, or written in the wrong order. "Text revealed on Dead Sea Scroll fragments thought to be blank" is much easier to read.
- sfjailbird 6y agoThe most HN of comment threads.