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Zeno: “To grasp” means “to understand”

July 23, 2020August 9, 2020 ~ jackofalltrades ~ Leave a comment

Why is it that a word which primarily means “to clutch” also means something like “to understand”? It seems Zeno is responsible for this (imaginative) invention.

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