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Notice, too, how much less certain the Webster definition seems about itself, even though it’s more complete — as if to remind you that the word came first, that the word isn’t defined by its definition here, in this humble dictionary, that definitions grasp, tentatively, at words, but that what words really are is this haze and halo of associations and evocations, a little networked cloud of uses and contexts.
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Money is something that people living in specific contexts and circumstances use to buy and sell particular things, create particular relations of credit and debt, and participate in these relations in particular ways. __These transactions are enabled by but not reducible to money’s impersonality__, for the motivations and rationalities that shape them are determined by the transacting individuals’ personal perceptions and desires.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
Writers often talk about falling into one of two camps when it comes to tackling a novel. "Plotters" prefer to outline as much as possible ahead of time and write with a clear sense of where the story is going. "Pantsers" argue that an outline is stifling, or that they can't envision the ending until they reach it. Flying by the seat of their pants provides the spontaneity they need for a creative rush.
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