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Hemingway once said just write the truest sentence you can think of and I think he was right. Good writing and good essays are truthful in a way that wouldn't b
by clooper 3y ago
Hemingway once said just write the truest sentence you can think of and I think he was right. Good writing and good essays are truthful in a way that wouldn't be expected from commercial and marketing copy. But to write truthfully one must know what is true and this is surprisingly hard.
- Nevermark 3y ago> No essay is true, or complete, including this on - Gödel, a bastard and a cynic, having a bad essay day after attempting to out drink Hemingway, yet somehow expressing a surprising deep truth
- clooper 3y agoYou might also be interested in Tarski's work about the undefinability of truth.