There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it.

Christopher Hitchens
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When William James said that there is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words, he was speaking about the idea of the world being more than just what we can see. He believed that there was another world beyond our senses that we could not explain properly by science alone. He also believed that there were truths in this invisible world, although he couldn’t say exactly what those truths were.

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