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...insisting on the back of reason that claims be valid- while blindly accepting that the criteria for validity will not be subject to the same scrutiny...
"New men who swam into her environment ignored her at first. Some then began to gaze curiously at her. Then they either went back to ignoring her or else found some way of letting her know that they thought she was beautiful; that this was by no means obvious; and that they deserved some reward or appreciation for having been so ingenious as to notice it." Neal Stephenson, REAMDE
la·cu·na
noun
an unfilled space or interval; a gap.
a missing portion in a book or manuscript.
A student asked, "What is language," and none could answer. A student climbed the mountain on rumor of a hermit who might be wise. While rounding a bend after steep incline, a rhythmic clang! Clang! Clang! Boulder-top, the hermit. A-hand, an ill-used hammer.
The student, "Surely a pickaxe or a sledge, some giant hammer and chisel? Anything but that measly dented thing."
The hermit, paused in his work, "Huh?"
The student, boots crunching on recently born gravel, "To break the boulder?"
The hermit, suddenly beaming, "Aha! You'd be right, too! But this is my only tool. And it's not the boulder I'm trying to break!"
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The student bowed and departed in understanding.