World Hypothesis

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    ... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.
    Robert Musil (1880–1942)

    Oversimplified, Mercier’s Hypothesis would run like this: “Wit is always absurd and true, humor absurd and untrue.”
    Vivian Mercier (b. 1919)