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"Correspondence of Ideas with the Motion of Organs"
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Good music is very close to primitive language.

— Denis Diderot

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Good music is very close to primitive language." in the context of ""Correspondence of Ideas with the Motion of Organs"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Denis Diderot

About Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot (5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) was a French philosopher and chief editor of the historic project to produce L'Encyclopédie.