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     "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life" Why not
the word killeth, but the spirit giveth life?  Because in the
beginning was the word, and the word was God.  The word
giveth life.  therefore to paraphrase, the letter killeth but
the word giveth life.  A prehistoric Gestalt theorist was at
work here, with the insight that the word and its meaning are
intuitively given, and are destroyed by being atomized; and
once destroyed, cannot be (re)synthesized from letters or
digits as its parts.  Bertrand Russell and Alfred North
Whitehead just didn't get it.

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Copyright 2006, Ernst Jochen Meyer
