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But in an Akan language, the notion that an object could exist as a bare substrate, stripped of properties—say, the idea of a stone, with its weight, texture, and color subtracted—is basically unintelligible; the metaphysical split between a thing and its properties isn’t naturally expressible.
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Lula Konner, The New York Review of Books, 4 Oct. 2025
Lula Konner, The New York Review of Books, 4 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
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Joe’s Stone Crab is as definable of the Miami Beach essence as the city’s distinctive Art Deco along Ocean Drive, its beaches and the Fontainebleau hotel.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
1 Feb. 2026
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For once it had been achieved in the deserts of West Asia, so the very notion of wind as a linguistically definable entity took off everywhere.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
18 Nov. 2025
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This is the only way metrics become communicable at scale.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
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Measles is one of the most highly communicable infections.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Expressible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expressible. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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