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at this point, near the end of his lecture, Norden brought up must to my delight, and gave Zhuangzi a very modern twist.

Norden argued that, and interprets, in part, Zhuanzi as saying, language is meant to be used as a tool for understanding. Words are for meaning; when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.

in Tractatus, Wittgenstein suggests "throwing away the ladder", and perhaps when we've ascended to dizzying contradictions posed by Zhuangzi, we should do the same

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