General Marshall

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    “‘A thing is called by a certain name because it instantiates a certain universal’ is obviously circular when particularized, but it looks imposing when left in this general form. And it looks imposing in this general form largely because of the inveterate philosophical habit of treating the shadows cast by words and sentences as if they were separately identifiable. Universals, like facts and propositions, are such shadows.”
    —David Pears (b. 1921)

    “Robert Whitmore
    died of apoplexy
    when a stranger from Georgia
    mistook him
    for a former Macon waiter.”
    —Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905)