As Doonesbury put it: "A verb, Senator, we need a verb!" https://web.archive.org/web/20151031131012/https://writing.rocks/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Doonesbury-

As Doonesbury put it: "A verb, Senator, we need a verb!" https://web.archive.org/web/20151031131012/https://writing.rocks/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Doonesbury-a-verb-senator.gif https://web.archive.org/web/20151031131012/https://writing.r... Walter White gave us "This is science, Jesse. We must be exact or we might just as well be in philosophy class." There's an essay on fuzzy big picture culture versus detail culture; it comes down to a difference between narrative word-based comprehension versus web-of-facts, logic, and mathematical thinking. https://www.someweekendreading.blog/math-illiterate-rulers/ https://www.someweekendreading.blog/math-illiterate-rulers/