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>although describing and explaining (predicting, retrodicting understanding) are distinguishable, they are also in an important sense, inseparable. It is only because expressions in terms of which we describe objects, even such basic expressions as words for perceptible characteristics of molar objects, locate these objects in the space of implications, that they describe at all, rather than merely label. The descriptive and explanatory resources of language advance hand in hand.

ITT: discuss how we can meme Sellars so the turbo-plebs on /lit/ start reading serious philosophy.

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