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> It's a tool. It’s also an art, and a science, and as such it is often seen as beautiful. Beauty, of course, is in the eyes of the beholder, but people tend t
by Koshkin 4y ago
> It's a tool.
It’s also an art, and a science, and as such it is often seen as beautiful. Beauty, of course, is in the eyes of the beholder, but people tend to ascribe it the objective status, sometimes that of a divine nature.
- gausswho 4y agoYour response made me think of a fundamental bugbear I have with English, and maybe other languages: the word 'is' has a tendency to imply exclusivity unless coddled by further explanation. If someone says something is a tool, that doesn't technically imply there is nothing else it 'is'. But in colloquial use, that's sometimes the intent of the author and sometimes not.