To reason is to rub two propositions together until friction produces certainty, or smoke. The rock will remember the contact. So will you.
A burnt-orange canyon of thought. Friction, heat, sediment.
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To reason is to rub two propositions together until friction produces certainty, or smoke. The rock will remember the contact. So will you.
What you concluded last winter is now a layer beneath what you concluded last week. Drilling down is not regression but archaeology. Read the bands.
Doubt fossilises beautifully. It leaves precise impressions that outlast the certainty around it. Curators prize them.
If the surface is unscorched, no reasoning has occurred. Look for the discolouration along the margins. That is where the work lived.
A canyon is the long answer of a small river to a big stone. Patience plus persistence equals geometry. The same applies to arguments.
Assumptions live near the surface, brittle and easily chipped. Premises are deeper, denser, and resistant to the hammer. Carry both kinds of tools.
Reasoning is not a substance you pour. It is a current that carves. The longer it runs, the deeper the channel, and the more sharply the world is divided into what was and what is.