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how does one begin to even delineate a “thing”?

azhenley on June 11, 2018 | [–]

A great place to start reading about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology)

pmalynin on June 11, 2018 | [–]

Oh man.

You should read Heidegger's The Thing.

[0] http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~ryanshaw/nmwg/the.thing-...

dredmorbius on June 12, 2018 | [–]

Thanks, iteeresting, in a thingness sort of a way.

Found the scan annoying, transcribed to pandoc Markdown:

https://pastebin.com/raw/3HYkwASH

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